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An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8.

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

Of or pertaining to Messina, or its inhabitans.

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

Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

nite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self. One's self (or more properly oneself), is quite a modern form. In Elizabethan English we find a man's self=one's self. Morris.

See Polonaise.

A bedbug. [R or Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy.

Of or pertaining to Turin. -- n. sing. & pl.

The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

Of or pertaining to Verona, in Italy. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Vienna, or people of Vienna. -- n. sing. & pl.

berant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

ern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

otable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

roaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.