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Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.

Unmanageable.[R.]

rying 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.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.

legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4.

The quality or state of being marriageable.

Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.

A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.

f matrons. Burke. Can a politician slight the feelings and convictions of the whole matronage of his country Hare.

A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse. [Prov. Eng.]

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.

Poorly; thinly.

The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

See Manage.

A piace where animals are kept and trained.

ommunication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. Judg. iii. 20.