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Unmanageable.[R.]

The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. "The management of the voice." E. Porter.

One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater. A skillful manager of the rabble. South.

Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.

The office or position of a manager.

Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridæ. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.…

Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow. [Written also manaty, manati.]

The act of issuing or flowing out. [Obs.]

A salt of manganic acid.

conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.

A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [Obs.]

Same as Membranous. Arbuthnot.

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.

A salt of metavanadic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.

The see of a metropolitan bishop. Milman.

Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.

Of or pertaining to miscellanies. Shaftesbury. -- n.