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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The distal part of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the wrist and hand or the carpus and forefoot.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The hand.
  • noun In Roman law: Same as dominium, but more commonly used of power over persons.
  • noun More specifically, the power of a Roman husband over his wife: as, in manu (of a woman), under the marital authority.

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

  • noun (Anat.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a man, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
  • noun obsolete, Roman law The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, hand; see man- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin manus ("hand").

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