| • | A human being; -- opposed tobeast. |
| • | Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child. |
| • | The human race; mankind. |
| • | The male portion of the human race. |
| • | One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. |
| • | An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject. |
| • | 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! |
| • | A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife. |
| • | One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun. |
| • | One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify. |
| • | To tame, as a hawk. |
| • | To furnish with a servants. |
| • | To wait on as a manservant. |
