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Cast steel containing a considerable percentage of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough. See Alloy steel, above.

Manganic. [R.]

Manganic. [Obs.]

Manganous.

Manganese.

Manganous.

Of or pertaining to Melanesia.

Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

Anæsthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.

Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful. Romanesque style (Arch.), that which grew up from the attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance…

A sultaness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A sultana.

The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood; also, the seignioralty of a thane.

Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.

Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.

Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.

A vanessa.

onsolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.