Ma*nur"age (?), n. Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.
Ma*nur"ance (?), n. Cultivation. [Obs.] Spenser.
Ma*nure" (m*nr"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Manuring.] [Contr, from OF. manuvrer, manovrer, to work with the hand,
to cultivate by manual labor, F. manœuvrer. See Manual, Ure, Opera, and
cf. Inure.] 1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop
by culture. [Obs.]
To whom we gave the strand for to manure.
Surrey.
Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward
things be no more moved.
Donne.
2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a
fertilizing substance.
The blood of English shall manure the ground.
Shak.
Ma*nure" (m*nr"), n. Any matter which makes land productive; a
fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung,
decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. Dryden.
Ma*nure"ment, n. [Cf. OF. manouvrement.] Cultivation. [Obs.] W. Wotton.
Ma*nur"er (?), n. One who manures land.
Ma*nu"ri*al (?), a. Relating to manures.
Ma*nur"ing (?), n. The act of process of applying manure; also, the
manure applied.
||Ma"nus (?), n.; pl. Manus. [L., the hand.] (Anat.) The distal segment
||of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.
Man"u*script (?), a. [L. manu scriptus. See Manual, and Scribe.]
Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.
Man"u*script, n. [LL. manuscriptum, lit., something written with the
hand. See Manuscript, a.] 1. A literary or musical composition written
with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy.
2. Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in
manuscript. Craik.
The word is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS.