单词 | mani |
释义 | † manin.1 Obsolete. In South America: the groundnut, Arachis hypogaea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > peanut mani1604 pindar1684 earthnut1714 groundnut1740 ground-pea1796 peanut1802 goober1833 monkey nut1880 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > other nuts mani1604 nuciprune1682 breadnut?1740 buckeye1785 mockernut1804 breadnut1828 philopena1839 nutlet1848 Barcelona nut1851 buffalo-nut1857 urucuri1860 Queensland nut1870 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xviii. 260 Those [sc. root vegetables] which I now remember besides Papas, which is the principall, there is Ocas,..Totora, Mani, and an infinite number of other kindes. 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 186 They have..a Sort of Fruit there [i.e. at Pisco], which grows in a Cod that does not rise out of the Earth..The Inhabitants call it Many. 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 186 (margin) Many Fruit. 1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. i. viii. 79 Another fruit called mani, is produced by a small plant. It is of the size and shape of a pine-cone. 1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 318 The Jack-fruit, sweet sops, sour sops, mannees [etc.]. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 717/2 Mani,..a Spanish name of the Ground Nut, Arachis hypogæa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). manin.2 Any of various sacred objects or aids to prayer; esp. a prayer wheel containing ‘Om maṇi padme hūṃ’ or other mantras (cf. prayer wheel n.), or a stone slab or wall of slabs inscribed with this or other mantras (frequently attributive in mani wall). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > land > structures of or in land > [noun] > prayer-wall mani1818 mendang1854 prayer wall1872 Wailing Wall1878 Western Wall1899 c1774 G. Bogle in C. R. Markham Narr. Mission G. Bogle to Tibet (1876) iii. 29 Some old women..were counting their beads and repeating their Om mani padmi hums!] 1818 A. Gerard Jrnl. 5 Oct. in Acct. Koonawur (1841) 277 We passed several tumuli from ten to forty feet in length... They are called Mane, and are erected over the graves of Lamas. ?a1840 A. Gerard Acct. Koonawur (1841) ii. 127 Cylinders, called Mane, are common. 1863 E. Schlagintweit Buddhism in Tíbet xiii. 196 Mani, originally a Sanskrit word meaning ‘a precious stone’,..is used to designate walls of about six feet in height and four to eight feet in breadth. 1863 E. Schlagintweit Buddhism in Tíbet xiii. 196 The prayer cylinders are also called ‘Manis’. 1896 W. Simpson Buddhist Praying-wheel ii. 31 The Mantra is known to the Tibetans as the ‘Mani’; this will explain why the name is given to the Wheel as well as to the dikes of stone. 1925 B. Beetham in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 i. viii. 171 The mani-walls (prayer-stones) had once been of an unusually imposing nature. 1953 Tsung-Lien Shen & Shen-Chi Liu Tibet v. 118 The approach to a village or monastery is marked by a Mani wall or by a pagoda. 1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard iii. 193 A benign presence with four hands, bearing a string of pearls, a lotus, and the blue orb or mani that signifies compassion. 1991 E. A. Scarborough Nothing Sacred iv. 137 I particularly like the smooth, carved mani stones—there must have been millions of them here once, engraved with prayers and piled into walls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † manin.3 Obsolete. Any of several tropical South American trees yielding a resinous gum, esp. Moronobea coccinea, of the family Clusiaceae ( Guttiferae); the gum yielded by any of these trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > hog gum tree hog gum tree1756 mani1819 1819 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. IV. xix. 523 They exchange..the resin called mani. 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 401 Dr. Macfadgen asserts that this Hog gum is the same as the mani or oanani of Brazil, and therefore belongs to Moronobea coccinea... It is largely used in the West Indies for the same purposes as pitch. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 54/1 Buck Wax, a colonial name for the inspissated juice of the mani, or candle-wood tree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : mani-comb. form < see also |
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