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Word Meanings - MANHANDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon. 2. To handle roughly; as, the captive was manhandled.

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  • HUMANIFY
    To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
  • CANNON BONE
    See BONE
  • HUMANIZE
    To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
  • HUMANITARIANISM
    The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
  • HUMANISM
    1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
  • HUMANISTIC
    1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
  • CANNONADE
    1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
  • FORCEPS
    The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • HANDLESS
    Without a hand. Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • HUMANITY
    The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
  • HUMANIST
    1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
  • HUMANKIND
    Mankind. Pope.
  • MANAGEABLE
    Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.
  • FORCEFUL
    Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
  • FORCEMENT
    The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
  • CANNONEER; CANNONIER
    A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
  • MANAGERY
    1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
  • CANNONED
    Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
  • FORCE
    To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
  • CHANDLER
    of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
  • INHUMANITY
    The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
  • REINFORCEMENT
    See REëNFORCEMENT
  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • DEFORCEOR
    See DEFORCIANT
  • REENFORCE
    To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
  • DEFORCE
    To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
  • PANHANDLE STATE
    West Virginia; -- a nickname.

 

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