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One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.

The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.

Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.

A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc. Ure.

A white amorphous or crystalline substance, obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.

Resembling a human being in form or nature; human. Chaucer. But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature. Gower.

A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.

A salt of mannitic acid.

A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite. HO.CH2.(CHOH)4.CH2.OH = D-mannitol; manna sugar; cordycepic acid; Diosmol; Mannicol; Mannidex; Osmiktrol; Osmosal. -- used in ph…

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, mannite. Mannitic acid (Chem.), a white amorphous substance, intermediate between saccharic acid and mannite, and obtained by the partial oxidation of the latter.

The technical name of mannite. See Mannite.

A variety of sugar obtained by the partial oxidation of mannite, and closely resembling levulose.

The muller, or crushing and grinding stone, used in grinding corn on a metate. [Mexico & Local U. S.]

See Maneuver.

An optical device for making an indicator diagram for high- speed engines. It consists of a light-tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror which reflects a beam of light on to the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end. The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved in one direction by a…

An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, o…

Of or pertaining to the manometer; made by the manometer.

The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family. My manors, rents, revenues, l forego. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a manor. " Manorial claims." Paley.

Same as Manometer.