Associations to the word «Manus»

Wiktionary

MANUS, noun. (formal) A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a man, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
MANUS, noun. (obsolete) (Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

Dictionary definition

MANUS, noun. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne