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anly quality; courage; bravery; resolution. I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus. Shak.

The qualities or condition of a gentleman. [R.] Thackeray.

Absence or lack of manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

uishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple.

study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. To arrive at, or attain to. When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.

reole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.

Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.

Being is seen in his works. They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ. Milman.

it is no derogation to the Christian religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

sive acts, events, etc. Seen in life's early morning sky. Keble. The forms of its earlier manhood. Longfellow. The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer. J. C. Shairp. Early English (Philol.) See the Note under English. -- Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in…

To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ompanionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

grain of gunpowder, of pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc. I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved. Milton.

Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. Burke.

A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form - head.

wliness or submission. The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood. Hooker.

The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.