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Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few. Thou shalt be a father of many nations. Gen. xvii. 4. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 1 Cor. i. 26.

Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

Having many sides; -- said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.

The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

In many different ways; variously.

Same as Nymphomania.

The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies. [Written also Rommany.]

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made fr…

A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A- (6).

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

Fit; adapted; suitable. [Obs.] A many man, to ben an abbot able. Chaucer.

sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson.

ess; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

A genus including many species of small mites.

s chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

nt of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisement.