Manurage
(Ma*nur"age) n. Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.
Manurance
(Ma*nur"ance) n. Cultivation. [Obs.] Spenser.
Manure
(Ma*nure") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Manuring.] [Contr, from OF. manuvrer,
manovrer, to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, F. manœuvrer. See Manual, Ure, Opera,
and cf. Inure.]
1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.]
To whom we gave the strand for to manure.
Surrey.
Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved;
And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
Donne. 2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.
The blood of English shall manure the ground.
Shak. Manure
(Ma*nure") n. Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents
of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. Dryden.
Manurement
(Ma*nure"ment), n. [Cf. OF. manouvrement.] Cultivation. [Obs.] W. Wotton.
Manurer
(Ma*nur"er) n. One who manures land.
Manurial
(Ma*nu"ri*al) a. Relating to manures.
Manuring
(Ma*nur"ing) n. The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.
Manus
(||Ma"nus) n.; pl. Manus. [L., the hand.] (Anat.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including
the carpus and fore foot or hand.
Manuscript
(Man"u*script) a. [L. manu scriptus. See Manual, and Scribe.] Written with or by the
hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.
Manuscript
(Man"u*script), n. [LL. manuscriptum, lit., something written with the hand. See Manuscript,
a.]
1. A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy.
2. Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript. Craik.
The word is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS.
Manuscriptal
(Man"u*script`al) a. Manuscript. [Obs.]
Manutenency
(Man`u*ten"en*cy) n. [L. manus hand + tenere to hold.] Maintenance. [Obs.] Abp.
Sancroft.
Manway
(Man"way`) n. A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through. Raymond.
Manx
(Manx) a. Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language.
Manx cat (Zoöl.),
a breed of domestic cats having a rudimentary tail, containing only about three vertebrae.
— Manx shearwater (Zoöl.), an oceanic bird (Puffinus anglorum, or P. puffinus), called also Manx
petrel, Manx puffin. It was formerly abundant in the Isle of Man.