Coleridge.
In old usage, of was often omitted after manner, when employed in this
sense. "A manner Latin corrupt was her speech." Chaucer.
By any manner of means, in any way possible; by any sort of means. --
To be taken in, or with the manner. [A corruption of to be taken in the
mainor. See Mainor.] To be taken in the very act. [Obs.] See Mainor. --
To make one's manners, to make a bow or courtesy; to offer salutation.
-- Manners bit, a portion left in a dish for the sake of good manners.
Hallwell.
Syn. -- Method; mode; custom; habit; fashion; air; look; mien; aspect;
appearance. See Method.
Man"nered (?), a. 1. Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of
carrying and conducting one's self.
Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is
born.
Shak.
2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic
peculiarity.
His style is in some degree mannered and confined.
Hazlitt.
Man"ner*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. maniérisme.] Adherence to a peculiar style
or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment,
carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the
manner, though vicious, is natural . . . . But a mannerism which
does not sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on
principle, and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is
always offensive.
Macaulay.
Man"ner*ist, n. [Cf. F. maniériste.] One addicted to mannerism; a
person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic
peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
Man"ner*li*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being mannerly;
civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
Man"ner*ly, a. Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.
What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly.
Shak.
Man"ner*ly, adv. With good manners. Shak.
Mann"heim gold" (?). [From Mannheim in Germany, where much of it was
made.] A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty
per cent of copper and twenty of zinc. Ure.
Man"nide (?), n. [Mannite + anhydride.] (Chem.) A white amorphous or
crystalline substance, obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct
from, but convertible into, mannitan.
Man"nish (?), a. [Man + - ish: cf. AS. mennisc, menisc.] 1. Resembling
a human being in form or nature; human. Chaucer.
But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature.
Gower.
2. Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike,
masculine. Chaucer.
A woman impudent and mannish grown.
Shak.