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ans to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship. Tylor. Gitche Manito the mighty, The Great Spirit, the creator, Smiled upon his helpless children! Longfellow. Mitche Manito the mighty, He the dreadful Spirit of Evil, As a serpent was depicted. Longfellow.

The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.

A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.

A salt of mannitic acid.

a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite. HO.CH2.(CHOH)4.CH2.OH = D-mannitol; manna sugar; cordycepic acid; Diosmol; Mannicol; Mannidex; Osmiktrol; Osmosal. -- used in pharmacy as excipient and diluent for solids and liquids. Used…

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, mannite. Mannitic acid (Chem.), a white amorphous substance, intermediate between saccharic acid and mannite, and obtained by the partial oxidation of the latter.

The technical name of mannite. See Mannite.

A variety of sugar obtained by the partial oxidation of mannite, and closely resembling levulose.

A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.

A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C.…

One of a body of nominal Christians, who speak the Arabic language, and reside on Mount Lebanon and in different parts of Syria. They take their name from one Maron of the 6th century.

Native sulphate of ammonia, found in volcanic districts; -- so named from Mascagni, who discovered it.

The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness.

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.

An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.

A black variety of garnet.

An explosive of great destructive power; -- so called from its color, which resembles honey.

A high explosive similar to lyddite, consisting principally of picric acid, used in the French military service.

massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.