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Manifest

SHIP'S, a formal statement of a cargo for the use of the custom house officers.

Manitoba Lake

a lake of Canada, province of Manitoba, about 40 miles S. W. of Lake Winnipeg; length about 1,900 square miles. It receives the tremity, and at its S. White Mud river.

It discharges into Lake Winnipeg through the Dauphin river. waters of several lakes at its N. ex-

Manizales

South America, a town in Colombia, 100 miles N. W. of Bogotá.

It is an important center of the goldmining and stock-breeding industries, with a population of about 35,000.

Mannering

MARY, an actress, born in 1876, in London, first appeared American Protestant Episcopal clergy-

Manning

WILLIAM THOMAS, an at Manchester in 1892. Came to New man, born in 1866. He graduated from York in 1896, and at Buffalo, N. Y., four years later scored her first success in "Janice Meredith." She married James K. Hackett, and later F. E. Wadsworth.

She retired from the stage in 1912.

Manograph

a device for indicating the varying pressure in an engine cylinder, when the pressure changes with a varying volume. It is used chiefly on high-speed engines and internalcombustion motors.

Manor

in English law, a lordship or barony held by a lord and subject to the jurisdiction of a court-baron held by him. In American law, a tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a fee-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes perform certain stipulated services.

Manoury

GENERAL, a French fficer who figured prominently in the irst Battle of the Marne in September, 1914, when he commanded the 6th French Army which in the first day's fighting (Sept. 6) helped to turn Von Kluck's right wing and Sept. 9 drove the Germans across the Ourcq in retreat.

Mansard

a style of roof, also called the French curb, or hip-roof; named after a French architect, who invented it.

It was designed to make the attics available for rooms, in consequence of a municipal law limiting the height of front walls in Paris.

Mansfield

town in Bristol co., Mass., 24 miles S. W. of Boston and 20 miles N. E. of Providence. The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad runs into it, and the industrial establishments turn out much cutlery, cocoa machine tools, and straw goods. Pop. (1910) 5,183; (1920) 6,255.

Mansfield

a manufacturing city 14 miles N. of Nottingham, England, situated in the midst of what remains of Sherwood Forest. Silk and cotton mills employ the majority of the people, but a large trade in agricultural produce is also carried on. The city owns the water and gas works, and conducts a mechanics' institute. Po Pop. about 40,000.

Manslaughter

the slaughter or killing of a human being or beings; homicide.

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