manes

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They reel in their saddles and fall to the plain The riderless steeds, wild with wounds and with fear, Dash away o'er the field in unbridled career; Their stirrups swing loose and their manes are all gore From the mad cavaliers that shall ride them no more.

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  1. plural noun The spirits of the dead, regarded as minor supernatural powers in ancient Roman religion.
  2. plural noun The revered spirit of one who has died.

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  • Their riders were maidens bent low over streaming manes, and in their midst stood a powerful man who commanded the waves to cease, and there was calm. —  FSF,April2008
  • It was drawn by eight cream-colored horses—great stately creatures—with white flowing manes, and tails like mountain cascades. —  Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood And Womanhood
  • Their spiky manes, as barbed as tridents, oscillated in the roaring wind. —  J
  • Active she mounts Strokes the rein'd dragons' manes, and shakes the thongs On high they soar:--Thessalian Tempé far Beneath she views; then tow'rd the chalky land Her snakes directs. —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
  • Everybody knows Juvenal's famous lines: "That there are manes, a subterranean kingdom, a ferryman with a long pole, and black frogs in the whirlpools of the Styx; that so many thousand men could cross the waves in a single boat, to-day even children refuse to believe. —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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  1. Middle English, from Latin mānēs, perhaps from mānis, good; see mā-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, prob. from Old Latin manis, manus, good.
 

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