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- Manual - a. - Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual.
- Manual - a. - A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Manual - a. - A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.
- Manual - a. - A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).
- Manualist - n. - One who works with the hands; an artificer.
- Manually - adv. - By hand.
- Chirology - n. - The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.
- Industrial - a. - Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights.
- Workingman - n. - A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
- Artist - n. - One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
- Principal - n. - In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
- Drill - n. - The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill.
- Train - v. t. - To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
- Handicraft - n. - A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
- Processioner - n. - A manual of processions; a processional.
- Cussuetudinary - n. - A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises.
- Workmanship - n. - That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor.
- Manual - a. - A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).
- Pestalozzian - a. - Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher.
- Manual - a. - Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual.
- Craft - n. - Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
- Dexterity - n. - Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel.
- Surgery - n. - The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
- Hard-handed - a. - Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
- Enchiridion - n. - Handbook; a manual of devotions.
- Surgeon - n. - One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.
- Tool - n. - An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
- Operate - v. i. - To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
- Craftsman - n. - One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
- Manure - v. t. - To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
- Artist - n. - One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.