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See Juggernaut.

A myrtaceous tree of the West Indies and tropical America (Calyptranthes Jambolana), with astringent bark, used for dyeing. It bears an edible fruit.

A native of the Sandwich Islands.

A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan.

A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color.

A place for storing wool.

Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.

A goddess who protected newborn infants.

A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.

Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.

Pilotage. [Obs.]

The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

Marriageable.[Obs.]

Same as Menace. [Obs.]

wrist; -- usually in the plural. Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand. Ecclus. xxi. 19.

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege. [Obs.] Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold. Bacon. Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon Wanting the manage of unruly jades. Shak. The unlucky manage of this fatal braw…

The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.

Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.