| • | 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. |