1. The human race; man, taken collectively.
The proper study of mankind is man.
Pore. 2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. Lev. xviii. 22.
3. Human feelings; humanity. [Obs] B. Jonson.
Mankind
(Man"kind`) a. Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel. [Obs]
Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing?
Beau. & Fl.
Be not too mankind against your wife.
Chapman. Manks
(Manks) prop. a. Of or pertaining to the language or people of the Isle of Man. — n. The language
spoken in the Isle of Man. See Manx.
Manless
(Man"less) a.
1. Destitute of men. Bakon.
2. Unmanly; inhuman. [Obs.] Chapman.
Manlessly
(Man"less*ly), adv. Inhumanly. [Obs.]
Manlike
(Man"like`) a. [Man + like. Cf. Manly.] Like man, or like a man, in form or nature; having the
qualities of a man, esp. the nobler qualities; manly. " Gentle, manlike speech." Testament of Love. " A
right manlike man." Sir P. Sidney.
In glaring Chloe's manlike taste and mien.
Shenstone. Manliness
(Man"li*ness) n. The quality or state of being manly.
Manling
(Man"ling) n. A little man. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Manly
(Man"ly), a. [Compar. Manlier ; superl. Manliest.] [Man + -ly. Cf. Manlike.] Having qualities
becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
Shak.
Serene and manly, hardened to sustain
The load of life.
Dryden. Syn. — Bold; daring; brave; courageous; firm; undaunted; hardy; dignified; stately.
Manly
(Man"ly), adv. In a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a manly man; as, to act manly.
Manna
(Man"na) n. [L., fr. Gr. ma`nna, Heb. man; cf. Ar. mann, properly, gift ]
1. (Script.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence,
divinely supplied food. Ex. xvi. 15.
2. (Bot.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts
of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food.
3. (Bot. & Med.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several
trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F.
rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.