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- English Word Manslayer Definition One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
- English Word Manstealer Definition A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.
- English Word Manstealing Definition The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e/slave them.
- English Word Mansuete Definition Tame; gentle; kind.
- English Word Mansuetude Definition Tameness; gentleness; mildness.
- English Word Manswear Definition To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.
- English Word Manta Definition See Coleoptera and Sea devil.
- English Word Mantchoo Definition Same as Manchu.
- English Word Manteau Definition A woman's cloak or mantle.
- English Word Manteau Definition A gown worn by women.
- English Word Manteaus Definition of Manteau
- English Word Manteaux Definition of Manteau
- English Word Mantel Definition The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports.
- English Word Mantelet Definition A short cloak formerly worn by knights.
- English Word Mantelet Definition A short cloak or mantle worn by women.
- English Word Mantelet Definition A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.
- English Word Mantelpiece Definition Same as Mantel.
- English Word Mantelshelf Definition The shelf of a mantel.
- English Word Manteltree Definition The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses.
- English Word Mantic Definition Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic.
- English Word Mantilla Definition A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.
- English Word Mantilla Definition A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders; -- worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.
- English Word Mantis Definition Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina.
- English Word Mantispid Definition Any neuropterous insect of the genus Mantispa, and allied genera. The larvae feed on plant lice. Also used adjectively. See Illust. under Neuroptera.
- English Word Mantissa Definition The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
- English Word Mantle Definition A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
- English Word Mantle Definition Same as Mantling.
- English Word Mantle Definition The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
- English Word Mantle Definition Any free, outer membrane.
- English Word Mantle Definition The back of a bird together with the folded wings.