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A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. As late the boatman hies him home. Percival.

A woman who manages a boat.

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic]

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [Slang, U. S.]

To manage the bow.

To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up. I always had an idea that it would be bungled. Byron.

and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.

Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]

A man who manages, or fires, cannon.

To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.

Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. The care of all the churches. 2 Car. xi. 28 Him thy care must be to find. Milton. Perlexed with a thousand cares. Shak.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management. The passage and whole carriage of this action. Shak. Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage. -- Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those…

carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design. (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade. -- To carry out. (a) To bear from within. (b) To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue. (c) To sustain to the end; to continue to the end. -- To car…

An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.

A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.

One who manages the running of an automobile; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.

Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham.