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Manucodiata (The). An old name for a bird of paradise. It is a corruption of the Malay manute-dewata,
the bird of the gods. Less pure the footless fowl of heaven, that never Manumit To set free; properly to send from one's hand (e manu mittere). One of the Roman ways of freeing a slave was to take him before the chief magistrate and say, I wish this man to be free. The lictor or master then turned the slave round in a circle, struck him with a rod across the cheek, and let him go. Manure (2 syl.) means hand-work (French, main-oeuvre), tillage by manual labour. It now means the
dressing applied to lands. Milton uses it in its original sense in Paradise Lost, iv. 628:- Yon flowery arbours, ... with branches overgrownIn book xi. 26 he says, the repentant tears of Adam brought forth better fruits than all the trees of Paradise that his hands manured in the days of innocence. Many a Mickle makes a Muckle or Many a little makes a mickle. Little and often fills the purse. (See
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