a human being; -- opposed tobeast.-especially: an adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.-the human race; mankind.-the male portion of the human race.-one possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.-an adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.-a term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, come, man, we 've no time to lose!-a married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.-one, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.-one of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.-to supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.-to furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.-to tame, as a hawk.-to furnish with a servants.-to wait on as a manservant.