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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.

To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon.

An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, o…

ance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force. March them again in fair array. Prior.

The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.

To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

inging together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like; as, specifically:

' Estrange. I have thoughts to tarry a small matter. Congreve. No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before. Mi lton.

f easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great. Shak.

The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction. [Obs.]

dance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.

One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.

One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.

One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. Chapman.

Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.

an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen. Mitford. The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity. What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might Spenser. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with a…