ence, and fymmetry. Adolefcence ends at the age of 20 or 25; and at this period (according to the divifion which has been made of the years of man's life into different ages), MANHOOD begins. It continues till the age of 30 or 35. (12.) MAN, PERIOD OF MATURITY, AND PROPER FORM OF. The body having acquired its full height during the period of adolefcence, and its full dimenfions in youth, remains for fome years in the fame ftate before it begins to decay. This is the period of MANHOOD, which extends from the age of 30 or 35 to that of 40 or 45 years. During this ftage, the powers of the body continue in full vigour, and the principal change which takes place in the human figure arifes from the formation of fat in different parts. Exceffive fatnefs disfigures the body, and becomes a very cumberfome and inconvenient load. The body of a well-shaped man ought to be square, the mufcles ftrongly marked, the contour of the members boldly delineated, and the features well defined. In women, all the parts are more rounded and fofter, the features are more delicate, and the complexion brighter. To man belong ftrength and majefty; gracefulnefs and beauty are the portion of the other fex. For the ftructure effential to each, fee ANATOMY. (13.) MAN, PROBABILITIES OF THE DURATION OF THE LIFE OF. Of thefe, M. Daubenton has given, in the Encyclopédie Methodique, a table, conftructed from that in the 7th vol. of the Supplement à l' Hiftoire Naturelle de M. de Buffon. The following is an abridgment of it. Of 23,994 children born at the fame time, there will probably DIE, In one year 7998 In 8 years In 38 years I1,997 15,996 In 50 years In 61 years In 70 years 22,395 23,914 23,992 and REMAIN, or 15,996. or 11,997. or 7,998. or 5,998. or 3,999. or 2,399. 4 or 599. I उठठ or 79. In 80 years In 90 years In 100 years toboo or 2. (14.) MAN, PROGRESSIVE DECAY OF, FROM MANHOOD TO OLD AGE AND DEATH. From the above table it appears, that a very fmall number of men pafs through all the periods of life, and arrive at the natural goal. Innumerable caufes accelerate our diffolution. No fooner has the body attained its utmoft perfection, than it begins to decline. Its decay is at firft imperceptible; but in progrefs of time the membranes become cartilaginous; the cartilages acquire the confiftence of bone; the bones become more folid, and all the fibres are hardened. The first traces of this decay begin about the age of 40, and fometimes fooner; this is the age of decline. It extends from 40 or 45 to 60 or 65 years of age. At this time of life, the diminution of the fat is the caufe of thofe wrinkles which begin to appear in the face and fome other parts of the body. The fkin not being fupported by the fame quantity of fat, and being incapable, from want of elafticity, of contracting, finks down and forms folds. A remark able change takes place alfo in vifion. In the vigour of our days, the cryftalline lens, being thicker and more diaphanous than the humours of the eye, enables us to read letters of a very small character at the distance of 8 or 10 inches. But when the age of decline comes on, the quantity of the humours of the eye diminishes, they lose their clearness, and the tranfparent cornea becomes lefs convex. To remedy this inconvenience, we place what we wish to read at a greater diftance from the eye: but vifion is thereby not much improved, because the image of the object becomes fmaller and more obfcure. Another mark of the decline of life is, a weakness of the ftomach, and indigef tion, in moft people who do not take fufficient exercife in proportion to the quantity and quality of their food. At 60, 63, or 65 years of age, the figns of decline become more and more vifible, and indicate old age. This period commonly extends to the age of 70, fometimes to 75 or 80. When the body is extenuated and bent by old age, man becomes crazy. Crazinefs therefore is nothing but an infirm old age. The eyes and ftomach then become weaker and weaker; leannefs increases the number of the wrinkles; the beard and the hair become white; the ftrength and the memory begin to fail. After 70, or at most 80 years of age, the life of man is nothing but labour and forrow: Such was the language of Mofes, above 3000 years ago. (Pfal. xc. 10.) Some men of Arong conftitutions, and in good health, enjoy old age for a long time without decrepitude, even to the age of roo or upwards; but fuch inftances are not very common. The figns of decrepitude form a ftriking picture of weaknefs, and announce the approaching diffolution of the body. The memory totally fails; the nerves become hard and blunted; deafnefs and blindness take place; the senses of fmell, of touch, and of taste, are deftroyed; the appetite fails; the neceffity of eating, and more frequently that of drinking, are alone felt; after the teeth fall out, maftication is imperfectly performed, and digeftion is very bad: the lips fall inwards; the edges of the jaws can no longer approach one another; the mufcles of the lower jaw become fo weak, that they are unable to raise and fupport it; the body finks down; the spine is bent outward; and the vertebræ grow together at the anterior part; the body becomes extremely lean; the ftrength fails; the decrepid wretch is unable to fupport himfelf; he is obliged to remain on a feat, or ftretched in his bed; the bladder becomes paralytic; the inteftines lofe their fpring; the cir culation of the blood becomes flower; the ftrokes of the pulfe no longer amount to the number of 70 or 80 in a minute, as in the vigour of life, but are reduced to 24, and fometimes fewer; refpiration is flower; the body lofes its heat; the circu lation of the blood ceafes; death follows; and the drama of life is at an end. As in women the bones, the cartilages, the mufcles, and every other part of the body, are fofter and lefs folid than thofe of men, they require more time in hardening to that degree which is fuppofed to occafion death. Women, of course, ought to live longer than men. This reafoning feems to be confirmed by experi ence; for, by confulting the bills of mortality, it appears, that after women have passed a certain age they in general live longer than men who have arrived at the fame age. After death the organi zation of the body begins to be dissolved, and all the MAN the parts relax, corrupt, and feparate. This is (15.) MAN, RATIONAL, MORAL, SOCIAL, AND LANGUAGE, LAW, LOGIC, METAPHYSICS, MOSee EDUCATION, RAL PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, THEOLOGY, &c. (16.) MAN, RESTORATION OF THE POWERS OF, BY SLEEP. M. Daubenton observes (Nouv. Encyc.) that a ceffation from exercife is not alone fufficient to reftore the powers of the body when they are exhaufted by fatigue. The fprings, tho' not in action, are ftill wound up while we are awake, even when every movement is fufpended. In fleep nature finds that repofe which is fuited to her wants, and the different organs enjoy a temporary relaxation. This is that wonderful ftate in which man, unconscious of his own existence, and funk in apparent death, repairs the lofs which his faculties has fuftained, and feems to affume a new existence. In this ftate of drowsiness and repofe, the fenfes ceafe to act, the functions of the foul are fufpended, and the body feems abandoned to itself. The external symptoms of fleep, which alone are the object of our attention, are easily distinguished. At the approach of fleep, the eyes begin to wink, the eye-lids fall down, the head nods and hangs down: its fall aftonishes the fleeper; he ftarts up, and makes an effort to drive away fleep, but in vain; a new inclination, ftronger than the former, deprives him of the power of raising his head, his chin rests upon his breaft, and in this position he enjoys a tranquil fleep. See SLEEP; alfo DREAMS, $7. (17.) MAN, SENSES OF. See ANATOMY, Ind. (18.) MAN, STATURE OF. The common ftature of man is about 5 feet, and 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 inches; and of women about 5 feet, and 2, 3, or 4 inches. Men below 5 feet are of a small ftature. The Laplanders do not exceed 4 feet and a half; and the natives of fome other countries are ftill fhorter. Women attain their full height fooner than men. Haller computes, that in the temperate climates of Europe, the medium ftature of men is about 5 feet, and or 6 inches. He adds, that in Switzerland the inhabitants of the plains are taller than thofe of the mountains. It is difficult to afcertain with precision the actual limits of the human ftature. In furveying the inhabited earth, we find greater differences in the ftatures of individuals than in thofe of nations. In the fame climate, among the fame people, and fometimes in the fame family, there are men whofe ftature is either too tall or too diminitive. See GIANT and DWARF. RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES OF. (19.) MAN, STRENGTH AND AGILITY OF. Although the human body is externally much more delicate than that of any other animal, yet it is very nervous, and perhaps ftronger in proportion to its fize than that of the ftrongeft animals. We are affured, that the porters at Conftantinople carry burdens of 900 pounds weight. A thoufand wonderful ftories are related of the Hottentots and other favages, concerning their agility in running. Civilized man knows not the full extent of his powers, nor how much he lofes by that effeminacy and inactivity by which they are MAN weakened and 'deftroyed. He is contented even his members are capable of acquiring by motion, to be ignorant of the strength and vigour which obferved in runners, tumblers, and rope-dancers. and by being accustomed to fevere exercises, as is juft and indifputable induction and analogy. The The conclufion is therefore founded on the most attitude of walking is lefs fatiguing to man than that in which he is placed when he is stopped in running. Every time he fets his foot upon the ground, he paffes over a more confiderable space; the body leans forwards, and the arms follow the fame direction; the respiration increases, and breathing becomes difficult. Leaping begins with great inflections of the members; the body is then much fhortened, but immediately. ftretches itself out with a great effort. The motions which accompany leaping make it very fatiguing. (20.) MAN, VARIETIES IN THE COLOUR, FORM, and HoмMO, § I. and II. AND CHARACTER OF. See COMPLEXION, § 2—7; 3 the Irish fea, lying about 21 miles N. of Anglesey, (II. i.) MAN, or the ISLE OF MAN, an island in as far W. of Lancashire, nearly equidiftant from Galloway on the SE. and 27 miles E. of Ireland. Its form is long and narrow, ftretching from the at least 30 miles. Its breadth in fome places is NE. of Ayr Point to the Calf of Man on the SE. not above 5, containing about 160 fquare miles. more than 9 miles, in most places 8, but in fome thor who mentions this island is Cæfar; for there (ii.) MAN, ANCIENT NAMES OF. can be as little doubt, that, by the MONA, in his The first au Commentaries, as lying in the midft between Britain and Ireland, we are to understand Man; as ftrait between it and the continent, can be applied that the MONA of Tacitus, which had a fordable only to ANGLESEY. Pliny has fet down both iflands; MONA, by which he intends Anglefey, and MONABIA, which is Man. In Ptolemy we find MONAÆDA, or MONAIDA, i. e. the farther or more remote Mona. Orofius ftyles it MENAVIA; that this, as well as Ireland, was then poffeffed by tells us, that it was not extremely fertile; and the Scots. Beda, who diftinguishes clearly two Menavian islands, names this the northern Menavia, and Anglefey the fouthern. In fome copies of Nennius, this ifle is denominated Eubonia; in others Manavia; but both mean Man, Alured of Beverley alfo speaks of it as one of the Menavian islands. The Britons, in their own language, called it Menaw, more properly Main au, i. e. a little island, which feems to be latinized into Menavia. These are clear proofs that this small isle was early inhabited, and as well known to the reft of the world as either Britain or Ireland. (iii.) MAN, CLIMATE, MOUNTAINS, MINERALS, fituation in the mouth of the channel, is very beSOIL, AND PRODUCE OF. This island, from its neficial to Britain, by leffening the force of the tides, which would otherwise break with far greater violence than they do at prefent. It is frequently expofed to very high winds; and at other times to mifts, which, however, are not at all unwholefome. The air is fharp and cold in winter; coaft, feldom lies long on the ground. There is the frofts fhort; and the fnow, especially on the a ridge of mountains runs almoft the lengt of the LIII 2. illand, inland, which afford good water from the rivulets and fprings; the higheft rifes about 580 yards. There are quarries of good ftone, and red freeftone, with some mines of lead, copper, and iron. The foil towards the N. is dry and fandy, of confequence unfertile, but not unimproveable; the mountains, which may include near two 3ds of the island, are bleak and barren; yet afford excellent peat, and contain several kinds of metals. In the valleys there is as good pasture, hay, and corn, as in any of the northern counties; and the S. part of the ifland is as fine foil as can be wished. They have mart and lime-ftone fufficient to render even their pooreft lands fertile; excellent flate, rag-ftone, black marble, and fome other kinds for building. They have vegetables of all forts, and in the utmoft perfection; potatoes in immenfe quantities, and tolerable fruit. They have alfo hemp, flax, large crops of oats and barley, and fome wheat. (iv.) MAN, DIVISIONS AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF. The moft general divifion of this iland is into N. and S. and it contains 17 parishes, of which five have market towns, the reft villages. Its divifion, with regard to its civil government, is into fix theedings; every one having its proper coroner, who is in the nature of a fheriff, is intrufted with the peace of his diftrict, fecures criminals, brings them to juftice, &c. The lord chief juftice Coke fays, "their laws were such as are fearce to be found anywhere elfe." In July 1786, a copper coinage for the use of the island was iffued from the Tower of London. (v.) MAN, ECCLESIASTICAL GOVERNMENT OF. The inhabitants of this ifle are of the church of England; and the bishop is ftyled Bishop of Sodor and Man. This bifhoprick was firft erected by Pope Gregory IV. and for its diocefe had this inle and all the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland; but which were called Sodoroc by the Danes, who went to them by the north, from the Swedith Sodor, Sail or Oar Iflands, from which the title of the bishop of Sodor is fuppofed to originate. The bithop's feat was at Ruthin, or Caftletown, in the ifle of Man, and in Latin is entitled Sodorenfis. But when this ifland became dependent upon England, the Western lands withdrew themselves from the obedience of their bishop, and had a bishop of their own, whom they entitled alfo Sodorenfis, but commonly Bishop of the Ifles. The patronage of the bishopric was given, together with the ifland, to the Stanleys by king Edward IV. and came by an heiress to the family of Athol; and, on a vacancy thereof, they nominated their defigned bilhop to the king, who difmiffed him to the Abp. of York for confecraton. By act 33d of Hen. VIII. this bifhopric is declared in the province of York. (vi.) MAN, HISTORY OF. In the clofe of the first century, the Druids were expelled by Julius Agricola from the fouthern Mona, and took fhelter in the northern. This illand they found well planted with firs, but they introduced oaks. No hiftories record this, but we learn it from more certain authority, great woods of fir having been discovered interred in the bowels of the earth, and here and there fmall groves of oaks: but as thefe trees are never met with intermixed, it is plain they never grew together; and as the former are by far the most numerous, we may prefume that they were the natural produce of the country. The Druids gave the people a gentle government and wife laws, but withal a very fuperftitious religion. It is also very likely that they hindered them, as much as they could, from having any correfpondence with their neighbours; which is the reason that, though the island is mentioned by fo many writers, not one of them, be-fore Orofius, fays a word about the inhabitants. A little before his time, that is, in the beginning of the 5th century, the Scots had transported themselves thither from Ireland. The traditionary history of the natives of Man begins at this period. They ftyle this firft difcoverer Mannan Mat Lear; and they fay that he was a magician, who kept this country covered with mists, so that the inhabitants of other places could never find it. But the ancient chronicle of Ireland informs us, that the true name of this adventurer was Orbenius, the fon of Alladius, a prince in their island; and that he was furnamed Maħnanan, from his having first entered the island of Man, and Mas Lir, i. e. the fon of the fea, from his great skill in navigation. He promoted commerce; and is faid to have given a good reception to St Patrick, by whom the natives were converted to Chriftianity. The princes who ruled after him feem to have been of the fame line with the kings of Scotland, with which they had great intercourfe, affifting its monarchs in their wars, and having the education of their princes confided to them in time of peace. In the beginning of the 7th century, Edwin, king of Northumberland, invaded the Menavian iflands, ravaged Man, and kept it for fome time, when, Beda affures us, there were in it about 300 families; which was less than a third part of the people in Arglefey, though Man wants but a third of the fize of that island. The ad line of their princes they derive from Orri, who, they fay, was the fon of the king of Norway; and that there were 12 princes of this houfe who reigned in Man. The old conftitution, fettled by the Druids while they fwayed the fceptre, was perfectly restored; the country was well cultivated, and well peopled; their subjects were equally verfed in the exercife of arms, and in the knowledge of the arts of peace: in a word, they had a confiderable naval force, an extenfive commerce, and were a great nation, though inhabiting only a little ifle. Guttred the fon of Orri built the caftle of Ruffun, A. D. 960, which is a ftrong place, has a large palace, and has fubfifted now above 800 years. Macao was the gth of these kings, and maintained an unfuccefsful ftruggle againft Edgar, who reduced all the little fovereigns of the different parts of Britain to own him for their lord; and, upon the submission of Macao, made him his high-admiral, by which title (ar chipirata, in the Latin of that age) he fubfcribes that monarch's charter to the abbey of Glaftonbury. After the death of Edward the Confeffer, when Harold II. had defeated the Norwegians at the battle of Stamford, there was amongst the fugitives one Goddard Crownan, the fon of Harold the Black, of Iceland, who took fhelter in the ife of Man. This ifle was then governed by another Goddard, a caft of falcons to be prefented at every corona tion. Thus it was poffeffed by this noble family, who were created earls of Derby, till the reign of queen Elizabeth; when, upon the demise of earl Ferdinand, who left 3 daughters, it was, as lord Coke tells us, adjudged to thofe ladies, and from them purchafed by William earl of Derby, the brother of Ferdinand, from whom it was claimed by defcent, and adjudged to the duke of Athol. See vii. Goddard, who was a defcendant from Macao, and he gave him a very kind and friendly reception. Goddard Crownan, during the short stay he made in the island, perceived that his name fake was univerfally hated by his fubjects; which infpired him with hopes that he might expel the king, and become mafter of the island. This he at last accomplished, after having defeated and killed Fingal the son of Goddard, who had fucceeded his father. Upon this he affigned the N. part of the inland to the natives, and the S. to his (vii.) MAN, INHABITANTS, LANGUAGE, POPU own people; becoming thus the founder of the LATION, AND REVENUE OF. The inhabitants of 3d race of princes. However unjustly he acquired Man, though far from being unmixed, were, perhis kingdom, he governed it with spirit and pru- haps, till within the course of the last century, dence; made war with fuccefs in Ireland; gained more fo than any other under the dominion of feveral victories over the Scots in the Ifles; and, the crown of Great Britain; to which they are after making a tour through his dominions, died very proud of being fubjects, though, like the inin the island of Iflay. He left behind him 3 fons. habitants of Jersey and Guernsey, they have a A civil war breaking out between the two eldest, constitution of their own, and a peculiarity of and both dying in a few years, Magnus king of manners naturally refulting from a long enjoyNorway came with a powerful fleet, poffeffed ment of it. The Manks tongue is the only one himfelf of Man and the ifles, and held them as fpoken by the common people. It is the old Brilong as he lived; but being flain in Ireland, the tifh, mingled with Norfe, or the Norwegian lanpeople invited home Olave, the youngest fon of guage, and the modern language. The clergy Goddard Crownan, who had fled to the court of preach, and read the common prayer in it. In England, and had been honourably treated by ancient times they were diftinguished by their staHenry II. There were in all 9 princes of this ture, courage, and great skill in maritime affairs. race, who were feudatories to the kings of Eng- They are at this day a brifk, lively, hardy, indufland; and often reforting to. their court, were trious, and well-meaning people. Their frugalikindly received, and had penfions bestowed upon ty defends them from want: and though there are them. Henry III. in particular, charged Olave, few that abound, there are as few in diftrefs; and king of Man, with the defence of the coafts of those who are, meet with a cheerful unconstrainEngland and Ireland; and granted him annually ed relief. On the other hand, they are choleric, for that service 40 merks, 100 meafures of wheat, loquacious, and, as the law till lately was cheap, and 5 pipes of wine. Upon the demife of Mag- and unincumbered with folicitors and attorneys, nus, the last king of this ille, without heirs male, not a little litigious. The revenue, in the earl of Alexander III. king of Scots, who had conquered Derby's time, amounted to about 2500l. a-year; the other ifles, feized likewife upon this; which, as from which, deducting his civil lift, which was a parcel of that kingdom, came into the hands of about 700l. the clear income amounted to 1800l. Edward I. who directed William Huntercumbe, At this time, the number of his fubjects was comwarden of that ifle for him, to restore it to John puted at 20,000.-The fovereign of Man, though Baliol, who had done homage to him for the king- he has long ago waved the title of king, was ftill dom of Scotland .But there ftill remained a lady, invefted with regal rights and prerogatives; but named Auftrica, who claimed this fovereignty, as the diftinct jurifdiction of this little fubordinate coufin and neareft of kin to the deceased Magnus. royalty, being found inconvenient for the purBeing able to obtain nothing from John Baliol, pofes of public juftice, and for the revenue (it the applied to K. Edward, as the fuperior lord. affording a commodious asylum for debtors, outHe, upon this application, by his writ, which is laws, and fmugglers), authority was given to the yet extant, commanded both parties, in order to treasury, by ftat. 12 Geo. I. c. 28, to purchase the determine their right, to appear in the king's intereft of the then proprietors for the use of the bench. The progrefs of this fuit does not ap- crown; which purchafe was at length completed pear; but this lady, by a deed of gift, conveyed in 1765, and confirmed by ftat. 5 Geo. III. c. 26 her claim to Sir Simon de Montacute; and, after and 39.; whereby the whole ifland and all its demany difputes, invafions by the Scots, and other pendencies (except the landed property of the accidents, the title was examined in parliament, Athol family), their manorial rights and emoluin the 7th of Edward III. and folemnly adjudged ments, and the patronage of the bishopric and to William de Montacute; to whom, by letters other ecclefiaftical benefices, are unalienably veftpatent, dated the fame year, that monarch re-ed in the crown, and subjected to the regulations leafed all claim whatfoever. In the fucceeding reign, William de Montacute, earl of Salisbury, fold it to Sir William Scroop, afterwards earl of Wiltshire; and, upon his lofing his head, it was granted by Henry IV. to Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland; who, being attainted, had, by the grace of that king, all his lands reftored, except the isle of Man; which the fame monarch granted to Sir John Stanley, to be held by him of the king, his heirs and fucceffors, by homage, and of the British excife and cuftoms. viii.) MAN, QUADRUPEDS, BIRDS, AND FISH, OF. Hogs, fheep, goats, black cattle, and horses, are numerous; and though fmall in fize, yet if the country was thoroughly cultivated, the breeds might be improved. The rabbits and hares are very fat and fine; tame and wild fowls are in great plenty; and in the high mountains are airies of eagles and hawks. They alfo feed a small species of fwine, called purrs, whose flesh is esteemed excellent heels: I was never manned with agate till now. Shak. excellent pork. The rivulets afford falmon, trouts, eels, and other fresh-water fish; on the coafts are caught.cod, turbot, ling, halibut, all forts of shellfish, and herrings, of which the natives made anciently great profit, though this fishery is of late much declined. (ix.) MAN, TRADE OF. The trade of this island was very great before 1726; but lord Derby farming out his cuftoms to foreigners, the infolence of thofe farmers drew on them the refentment of the government of England, who, by an act of parliament, deprived the inhabitants of an open trade with this kingdom. This naturally introduced a clandeftine commerce, which they carried on with England and Ireland with prodigious fuccefs, and an immenfe quantity of foreign goods was run into both kingdoms, till the government, in 1765, thought proper to put an entire ftop to it, by purchafing the island of the duke of Athol, and permiting a free trade with England. (III.) MAN, an inland in the South Pacific Ocean, Lon. 151. 25. E. Lat. 4. o. S. (IV.) MAN, a river in Nottinghamshire. (V.) MAN OF WAR. See § 1. def. 14; SHIP, and SHIP-BUILDING. -It hath been agreed, that either of them should fend certain fhips to fea well mann'd. Hayward. Their fhips go as long voyages as any, and are for their burdens as well manned. Raleigh.-He had manned it with a great number of tall foldiers. Bacon. They man their boats, and all young men arm. Waller.-The Venetians could fet out 30 men of war, 100 galleys, and ten galeafes; though I cannot conceive how they could man a fleet of half the number. Addifon.-Timoleon forced the Carthaginians out, though they had manned out a fleet of 200 men of war. Arbuthnot. 2. To guard with men. See, how the furly Warwick mans the wall. Shak. The fummons take of the same trumpet's call, To fally from one port, or man one public wall. Tate. 3. To fortify; to strengthen. Advife how war may be beft upheld, Mann'd by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage. Milton. -Theodofius having mann'd his foul with proper reflexions, exerted himfelf in the beft manner he could, to animate his penitent. Spectator. 4. To tame a hawk.— Another way I have to man my haggard, To make her come, and know her keeper's call; That is, to watch her. Shak. 5. To attend; to ferve; to wait on as a man or fervant.-Thou whorefon mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn in my cap than to wait at my 6. To direct in hoftility; to point; to aim. Ar obfolete word. Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires. Sbak. MANACHIA, a town and fort of Turkey, in Natolia, anciently called MAGNESIA. Lon. 27. 49. E. Lat. 38. 45. N. MANACIZO, a town of Naples, in Otranto. *To MANACLE. v. a. [from the noun.] To chain the hands; to fhackle. We'll bait thy bears to death, And manacle the bearward in their chains. Shak. I'll manacle thy neck and feet together. Shak. Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle and fhackle him hand and foot! Arbuthnot. * MANACLES. n. [manicles, French; manica, from Manus, Lat.] Chain for the hands; shackles. For my fake wear this glove; It is a manacle of love. Thou Shak. -Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold. Bacon. The plea of a good intention will ferve to fanctify the worst actions; the proof of which is but too manifeft from that fcandalous doctrine of the Jefuits concerning the direction of the intention, and likewife from the whole manage of the late rebellion. South. 2. Ufe; inftrumentality.-To think to make gold of quickfilver is not to be hoped; for quickfilver will not endure the manage of the fire. Bacon. 3. Government of a horse.In thy flumbers I heard thee murmur tales of iron wars, Shak. |