Man"like` (?), a. [Man + like. Cf. Manly.] Like man, or like a man, in
form or nature; having the qualities of a man, esp. the nobler
qualities; manly. " Gentle, manlike speech." Testament of Love. " A
right manlike man." Sir P. Sidney.
In glaring Chloe's manlike taste and mien.
Shenstone.
Man"li*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being manly.
Man"ling (?), n. A little man. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Man"ly, a. [Compar. Manlier (?); superl. Manliest.] [Man + -ly. Cf.
Manlike.] Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish;
manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
Shak.
Serene and manly, hardened to sustain The load of life.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Bold; daring; brave; courageous; firm; undaunted; hardy;
dignified; stately.
Man"ly, adv. In a manly manner; with the courage and fortitude of a
manly man; as, to act manly.
Man"na (mn"n), n. [L., fr. Gr. ma`nna, Heb. mn; cf. Ar. mann, properly,
gift (of heaven).] 1. (Script.) The food supplied to the Israelites in
their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely
supplied food. Ex. xvi. 15.
2. (Bot.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes
blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and
used as food.
3. (Bot. & Med.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow
friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in
medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and
F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.
Persian manna is the secretion of the camel's thorn (see Camel's thorn,
under Camel); Tamarisk manna, that of the Tamarisk mannifera, a shrub
of Western Asia; Australian, manna, that of certain species of
eucalyptus; Briançon manna, that of the European larch.
Manna grass (Bot.), a name of several tall slender grasses of the genus
Glyceria. they have long loose panicles, and grow in moist places.
Nerved manna grass is Glyceria nervata, and Floating manna grass is G.
fluitans. -- Manna insect (Zoöl), a scale insect (Gossyparia
mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarix tree
in Arabia.
Man"na croup` (krp`). [Manna + Russ. & Pol. krupa groats, grits.] 1.
The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the
millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for
puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats.