1. [n]  any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
2. [n]  game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"
3. [n]  all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"
4. [n]  one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
5. [n]  someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty"
6. [n]  
7. [n]  (informal) a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man"
8. [n]  an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
9. [n]  the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"
10. [n]  a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
11. [n]  a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
12. [v]  provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks"
13. [v]  take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"

1. \Man\, n.; pl. {Men}. [AS. mann, man, monn, mon; akin to
   OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel. ma[eth]r, for mannr, Dan.
   Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr. manu, manus, and perh. to
   Skr. man to think, and E. mind. [root]104. Cf. {Minx} a pert
   girl.]
   1. A human being; -- opposed tobeast.
   
            These men went about wide, and man found they none,
            But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R.
                                                  of Glouc.
   
            The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to
            him as it doth to me.                 --Shak.
   
   
   
   2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person,
      as distinguished from a woman or a child.
   
            When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
                                                  Cor. xiii. 11.
   
            Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.
   
   3. The human race; mankind.
   
            And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
            our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
                                                  26.
   
            The proper study of mankind is man.   --Pope.
   
   4. The male portion of the human race.
   
            Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
            man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.
   
   5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
      of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
      --Shak.
   
            This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the
            elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
            And say to all the world ``This was a man!'' --Shak.
   
   6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
   
            Like master, like man.                --Old Proverb.
   
            The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered,
            and holding up his hands between those of his lord,
            professed that he did become his man from that day
            forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
                                                  --Blackstone.
   
   7. 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!
   
   8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
   
            I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
                                                  Com. Prayer.
   
            every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.
   
   9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
      the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
   
            A man can not make him laugh.         --Shak.
   
            A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all
            they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum
            of a Roman ship.                      --Addison.
   
   10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
       draughts, are played.
   
   Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a
         separate adjective, its sense being usually
         self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater,
         man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
         manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man
         midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped,
         manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man
         worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a
         person of the male sex having a business which pertains
         to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the
         compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman,
         milkman, fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the
         combination is not familiar, or where some specific
         meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used
         as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as,
         apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man
         (as distinguished from woodman).
   
   {Man ape} (Zo["o]l.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.
   
   {Man at arms}, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
      centuries for a soldier fully armed.
   
   {Man engine}, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
      people through considerable distances; specifically
      (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend
      in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the
      shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
      which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
      between the successive landings. A man steps from a
      landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next
      landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by
      successive stages.
   
   {Man Friday}, a person wholly subservient to the will of
      another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.
   
   {Man of straw}, a puppet; one who is controlled by others;
      also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.
   
   {Man-of-the earth} (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipom[oe]a
      pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the
      morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous
      root.
   
   {Man of war}.
       (a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak.
       (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
   
   {To be one's own man}, to have command of one's self; not to
      be subject to another.
   
   

2. \Man\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Manned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Manning}.]
   1. 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.
   
            See how the surly Warwick mans the wall ! --Shak.
   
            They man their boats, and all their young men arm.
                                                  --Waller.
   
   2. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for
      efficiency; to fortify. ``Theodosius having manned his
      soul with proper reflections.'' --Addison.
   
   3. To tame, as a hawk. [R.] --Shak.
   
   4. To furnish with a servants. [Obs.] --Shak.
   
   5. To wait on as a manservant. [Obs.] --Shak.
   
   Note: In ``Othello,'' V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain,
         being, perhaps: To point, to aim, or to manage.
   
   {To man a yard} (Naut.), to send men upon a yard, as for
      furling or reefing a sail.
   
   {To man the yards} (Naut.), to station men on the yards as a
      salute or mark of respect.
   
   

3. \Man\, n.
   
   {Man of sin} (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil,
      whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as
      preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic
      expression]
   
   {Man-stopping bullet} (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a
      sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge;
      specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand
      when striking the human body. Such bullets are chiefly
      used in wars with savage tribes. Manbird \Man"bird`\, n.
   An aviator. [Colloq.]
   
   

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(1.) Heb. 'Adam, used as the proper name of the first man. The name is derived from a word meaning "to be red," and thus the first man was called Adam because he was formed from the red earth. It is also the generic name of the human race (Gen. 1:26, 27; 5:2; 8:21; Deut. 8:3). Its equivalents are the Latin homo and the Greek anthropos (Matt. 5:13, 16). It denotes also man in opposition to woman (Gen. 3:12; Matt. 19:10).

(2.) Heb. 'ish, like the Latin vir and Greek aner, denotes properly a man in opposition to a woman (1 Sam. 17:33; Matt. 14:21); a husband (Gen. 3:16; Hos. 2:16); man with reference to excellent mental qualities.

(3.) Heb. 'enosh, man as mortal, transient, perishable (2 Chr. 14:11; Isa. 8:1; Job 15:14; Ps. 8:4; 9:19, 20; 103:15). It is applied to women (Josh. 8:25).

(4.) Heb. geber, man with reference to his strength, as distinguished from women (Deut. 22:5) and from children (Ex. 12:37); a husband (Prov. 6:34).

(5.) Heb. methim, men as mortal (Isa. 41:14), and as opposed to women and children (Deut. 3:6; Job 11:3; Isa. 3:25).

Man was created by the immediate hand of God, and is generically different from all other creatures (Gen. 1:26, 27; 2:7). His complex nature is composed of two elements, two distinct substances, viz., body and soul (Gen. 2:7; Eccl. 12:7; 2 Cor. 5:1-8).

The words translated "spirit" and "soul," in 1 Thess. 5:23, Heb. 4:12, are habitually used interchangeably (Matt. 10:28; 16:26; 1 Pet. 1:22). The "spirit" (Gr. pneuma) is the soul as rational; the "soul" (Gr. psuche) is the same, considered as the animating and vital principle of the body.

Man was created in the likeness of God as to the perfection of his nature, in knowledge (Col. 3:10), righteousness, and holiness (Eph. 4:24), and as having dominion over all the inferior creatures (Gen. 1:28). He had in his original state God's law written on his heart, and had power to obey it, and yet was capable of disobeying, being left to the freedom of his own will. He was created with holy dispositions, prompting him to holy actions; but he was fallible, and did fall from his integrity (3:1-6). (See FALL.)