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12,058 words match “MAN”

CROSSBOWMAN n.
One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
CRYSTALLOMANCY n.
Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.
CUNNINGMAN n.
A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.
DACTYLIOMANCY n.
Divination by means of finger rings.
DACTYLOMANCY n.
Dactylio mancy. [R.] Am. Cyc.
DAIRYMAN n.
A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
DAIRYWOMAN n.
A woman who attends to a dairy.
DALESMAN n.
One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc. Macaulay.
DALMANIA n.
A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
DALMANITES n.
Same as Dalmania.
DAMAN n.
A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.
DAPHNOMANCY n.
Divination by means of the laurel.
DAYSMAN n.
An umpire or arbiter; a mediator. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33.
DAYWOMAN n.
A dairymaid. [Obs.]
DEATHSMAN n.
An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] Shak.
DECALCOMANIA; DECALCOMANIE n.
art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
DECLAIMANT n.
A declaimer. [R.]
DECOY-MAN n.
A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
DECUMAN a.
low, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used substantively. "Such decuman billows." Gauden. "The baffled decuman." Lowell.
DEHUMANIZE v.
To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
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