MANES

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• MANES (noun)
  The noun MANES has 1 sense:

1. a Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276)

  Familiarity information: MANES used as a noun is very rare.

• MANES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

 Context examples 

This was her day—and it came not often—when manes bristled, and fang smote fang or ripped and tore the yielding flesh, all for the possession of her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Faster and faster yet they raced, the hoofs rattling like castanets, the yellow manes flying, the wheels buzzing, and every joint and rivet creaking and groaning, while the curricle swung and swayed until I found myself clutching to the side-rail.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I told him, we had great numbers; that in summer they grazed in the fields, and in winter were kept in houses with hay and oats, where Yahoo servants were employed to rub their skins smooth, comb their manes, pick their feet, serve them with food, and make their beds.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)