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a. [ F. amener to lead; &unr_; (L. ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. minare to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari, to threaten, minae threats. See Menace. ] 1. (Old Law) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [ Obs. ] Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an amenable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. amesnagier. See Manage. ] To manage. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. See Amenable. ] Behavior; bearing. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'anti` against + &unr_; to speak; part. pass. &unr_;. ] (Eccl.) Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. crumena purse. ] A purse. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Emmenagogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, n. pl., menses (&unr_; in + &unr_; month) + &unr_; leading, fr. &unr_; to lead: cf. F. emménagogue. ] (Med.) A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; things conceded, p. p. of &unr_; to agree, admit, concede. See Homologous. ] Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Same as hymeneal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. The same as Isocheimal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Menaccan, in Cornwall, where it was first found. ] (Min.) An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. minaciae threats, menaces, fr. minax, -acis, projecting, threatening, minae projecting points or pinnacles, threats. Cf. Amenable, Demean, Imminent, Minatory. ] The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. [ 1913 Webster ]

His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Menaced p. pr. & vb. n. Menacing ] [ OF. menacier, F. menacer. See Menace, n. ] 1. To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. [ 1913 Webster ]

My master . . . did menace me with death. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. [ 1913 Webster ]

By oath he menaced
Revenge upon the cardinal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who ever knew the heavens menace so? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who menaces. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a threatening manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See manege. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ See Menagerie. ] 1. A collection of animals; a menagerie. [ Obs. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A social group living together; a household.
Syn. -- family, household, house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. A menage a trois. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F., household for three ] 1. A relationship involving three people, especially one in which three people live together and have sexual relations, such as a married couple and a lover of one of the pair. [ PJC ]

2. A single sexual encounter in which three people participate. [ PJC ]

3. [ figurative ] An unlikely situation in which a group of three people not normally associated with each other participate in an activity together. [ PJC ]

For the first time in World Championships history, two racers shared the first-place gold medal. Maier and Kjus arm-in-arm on the podium, with Austrian Hans Knauss just .01 seconds back from making it a menage-a-trois.
Andrew Hood (http://classic.mountainzone.com/ski/worldcup/99/worldchamps/superg-m.html) [ PJC ]

n. [ F. ménagerie, fr. ménager to keep house, ménage household. See Menial, Mansion. ] 1. A place where animals are kept and trained. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ménagogue, fr. Gr. mh`n month + &unr_; leading. ] (Med.) Emmenagogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Menaia [ NL., from Gr. mhnai^os monthly. ] (Eccl.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Covered with spots; speckled; variegated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Metaph.) Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal. G. H. Lewes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. phénoménal. ] Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. (Metaph.) That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. (with a foreign suffix), from promener to lead, take for a walk, se promener to walk, from L. prominare to drive forward or along; pro forward + minare to drive animals. See Amenable, Menace. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place for walking; a public walk. Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Promenaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Promenading. ] To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who promenades. [ 1913 Webster ]