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470 words match “MANU”

MANUMIT v.
lease from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave. "Manumitted slaves." Hume.
MANUMOTIVE a.
Movable by hand. [R.]
MANUMOTOR n.
A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it.
MANURABLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of cultivation. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
MANURAGE n.
Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.
MANURANCE n.
Cultivation. [Obs.] Spenser.
MANURE v. 3 definitions
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. Donne.
MANUREMENT n.
Cultivation. [Obs.] W. Wotton.
MANURER n.
One who manures land.
MANURIAL a.
Relating to manures.
MANURING n.
The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.
MANUS n.
The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.
MANUSCRIPT a. 3 definitions
Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.
MANUSCRIPTAL a.
Manuscript. [Obs.]
MANUTENENCY n.
Maintenance. [Obs.] Abp. Sancroft.
AMANUENSIS n.
A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
EMMANUEL n.
See Immanuel. Matt. i. 23.
IMMANUEL n.
God with us; -- an appellation of the Christ. Is. vii. 14. Matt. i. 23.
NONMANUFACTURING a.
Not carrying on manufactures.
AGGRY; AGGRI a.
Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.
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