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What thou thinkest meet, and is most
mannerly.

Shak.

Man"ner*ly, adv. With good
manners. Shak.

Mann"heim gold" (?). [From Mannheim in Germany,
where much of it was made.] A kind of brass made in imitation of
gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc.
Ure.

Man"nide (?), n. [Mannite +
anhydride.] (Chem.) A white amorphous or
crystalline substance, obtained by dehydration of mannite, and
distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.

Man"nish (?), a. [Man + -
ish: cf. AS. mennisc, menisc.] 1.
Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.
Chaucer.

But yet it was a figure

Most like to mannish creature.

Gower.

2. Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic
of, a man, manlike, masculine. Chaucer.

A woman impudent and mannish
grown.

Shak.

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