man

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A measure of weight in Persia, varying in value, in different localities, from about 6 to about 25 pounds.
• noun In Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lonsdale, a cairn or pile of stones marking a summit- or prominent point of a mountain. Compare Low Man, High Man, as local names for particular cairns, also applied to portions of the mountains themselves.
• noun A loafer who hangs about street-corners.
• noun In building a camp or barn of logs, one who notches the logs so that they will fit closely and make a square corner.
• noun One who makes a corner in stocks or commodities.
• noun A fielder who stands beyond point, but farther from the wicket, and more behind it.
• noun His position in the field.
• noun An honest, upright man.
• To supply with men; furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for service, defense, or the like.
• To brace up in a manful way; make manly or courageous: used reflexively.
• To wait on; attend; escort.
• To accustom to the presence or company of man; tame, as a hawk or other bird.
• noun In zoology, a featherless plantigrade biped mammal of the genus.Homo (which see); H. sapiens, a species of the family Hominidæ or Anthropidæ, order Primates, class Mammalia, of which there are several geographical races or varieties. : ; ; ; ;
• noun A being, whether super- or infra-natural; a person.
• noun An individual of the human race; a human being; a person: as, all men are mortal.
• noun Generically, the human race; mankind; human beings collectively: used without article or plural: as, man is born to trouble; the rights of man.
• noun Specifically
• noun A male adult of the human race, as distinguished from a woman or a boy; one who has attained manhood, or who is regarded as of manly estate.
• noun In an emphatic sense, an adult male possessing manly qualities in an eminent degree; one who has the gifts or virtues of true manhood.
• noun The qualities which characterize true manhood; manliness.
• noun An adult male considered as in some sense appertaining to or under the control of another person; a vassal, follower, servant, attendant, or employee; one immediately subject to the will of another: as, the officers and men of an army; a gentleman's man (a valet or body-servant); I am no man's man.
• noun A husband: as, my man is not at home (said by a wife).
• noun One subject to a mistress; a lover or suitor.
• noun A word of familiar address, often implying some degree of disparagement or impatience.
• noun A piece with which a game, as chess or checkers, is played.
• noun Nautical, in compounds, a ship or other vessel: as, man-of-war; merchantman, Indiaman, etc.
• noun plural See dead.
• noun In some parts of England, a coal-cutting machine.
• noun A man-at-arms.
• noun Antichrist.
• noun An imaginary or an irresponsible person put forward as substitute or surety for another, or for any fraudulent purpose.
• noun See man-of-war.
• noun In Scripture, man unregenerate or unrenewed; the old man (see below).
• noun In Scripture, unregenerate humanity; also, the fallen human nature inherited from Adam and operative in the regenerate, though not in the same manner or degree as in the unregenerate.
• noun The father of a family; the “governor.”
• noun The captain or commanding officer, as of troops, a vessel, etc.; the proprietor or employer: so called by his men.
• noun Theat., an actor who is usually cast for the parts of old men.
• noun In certain outdoor games, the leader; “it.”
• noun Abbreviations of Manitoba.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard.
• transitive verb To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
• transitive verb rare To tame, as a hawk.
• transitive verb obsolete To furnish with a servant or servants.
• transitive verb obsolete To wait on as a manservant.
• transitive verb (Naut.) to send men upon a yard, as for furling or reefing a sail.
• transitive verb (Naut.) to station men on the yards as a salute or mark of respect.
• noun A human being; -- opposed to beast.
• noun An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
• noun The human race; mankind.
• noun The male portion of the human race.