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The quality or state of being human.

The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds. L'Estrange. Huntsman's cup (Bot.), the sidesaddle flower, or common American pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea).

The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter. Donne.

The master of a family. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Divination by means of water, -- practiced by the ancients.

Of or pertaining to divination by water.

Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes. -- n.

A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.

Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.

Impolite; rude.

Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.

To manacle; to fetter; hence; to confine; to restrain from free action. Although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled. Milton.

A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [R.] Good.

Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce. [Obs.] "So immane a man." Chapman. -- Im*mane"ly, adv. [Obs.]

The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling. [Clement] is mainly concerned in enforcing the immanence of God. Christ is everywhere presented by him as Deity indwelling in the world. A. V. G. Allen.

limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective. A cognition is an immanent act of mind. Sir W. Hamilton. An immanent power in the life of the world. Hare.

Not manifest. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The state or quality of being immane; barbarity. [R.] Shak.

See Emmantle. [R.]