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ucture of the skull. It has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and arrangement.

Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.

d by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.

dle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.

he needle. -- Magnetic curves, curves indicating lines of magnetic force, as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of a powerful magnet. -- Magnetic elements. (a) (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic. (b) (Physics) In…

The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. [R.]

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] Bacon.

Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]

To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort. See how the surly Warwick mans the wall ! Shak. They man their boats, and all their young men arm. Waller.

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege. [Obs.] Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold. Bacon. Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon Wanting the manage of unruly jades. Shak. The unlucky manage of this fatal braw…

Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.

Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.

Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; as, the marking of a bird's plumage. Marking ink, indelible ink, because used in marking linen. -- Marking nut (Bot.), the nut of the Semecarpus Anacardium, an East Indian tree. The shell of the nut yield…

An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like; as, specifically:

The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner. Marshaling of assets (Law), the arranging or ranking of assets in due order of administration.