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Man
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A human being; - opposed tobeast.
(2):
(n.) The human race; mankind.
(3):
(n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
(4):
(n.) Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
(5):
(v. t.) To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
(6):
(n.) The male portion of the human race.
(7):
(n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
(8):
(n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
(9):
(n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!
(10):
(n.) A married man; a husband; - correlative to wife.
(11):
(n.) One, or any one, indefinitely; - a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
(12):
(v. t.) To wait on as a manservant.
(13):
(v. t.) To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
(14):
(v. t.) To tame, as a hawk.
(15):
(v. t.) To furnish with a servants.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Man'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/man.html. 1828.
