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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.

every wife ought to answer for her
man.

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.

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.

10. One of the piece with which certain
games, as chess or draughts, are played.

&fist; 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.


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