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    dumdum bullet
    [ noun ]
    a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound
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    Dumdum bullet \Dum"dum bul"let\ (Mil.)
    A kind of man-stopping bullet, designed to fragment inside
    the body and thus inflict a severed and painful wound; -- so
    named from Dumdum, in India, where bullets are manufactured
    for the Indian army.
    [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

    Man \Man\ (m[a^]n), n.; pl. {Men} (m[e^]n). [AS. mann, man,
    monn, mon; akin to OS., D., & OHG. man, G. mann, Icel.
    ma[eth]r, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth. manna, Skr.
    manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind.
    [root]104. Cf. {Minx} a pert girl.]
    1. A human being; -- opposed to {beast}.

    These men went about wide, and man found they none,
    But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. --R.
    of Glouc.

    The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to
    him as it doth to me. --Shak.

    'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast! --W. C.
    Fields
    [PJC]

    2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person,
    as distinguished from a woman or a child.

    When I became a man, I put away childish things. --I
    Cor. xiii. 11.

    Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man. --Dryden.

    3. The human race; mankind.

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
    our likeness, and let them have dominion. --Gen. i.
    26.

    The proper study of mankind is man. --Pope.

    4. The male portion of the human race.

    Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than
    man to the discharge of parental duties. --Cowper.

    5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities
    of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
    --Shak.

    This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the
    elements
    So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
    And say to all the world ``This was a man!'' --Shak.

    6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

    Like master, like man. --Old Proverb.

    The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered,
    and holding up his hands between those of his lord,
    professed that he did become his man from that day
    forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
    --Blackstone.

    7. A term of familiar address at one time implying on the
    part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience,
    or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! In the
    latter half of the 20th century it became used in a
    broader sense as simply a familiar and informal form of
    address, but is not used in business or formal situations;
    as, hey, man! You want to go to a movie tonight?.
    [Informal]
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.

    I pronounce that they are man and wife. --Book of
    Com. Prayer.

    every wife ought to answer for her man. --Addison.

    9. One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of
    the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.

    A man can not make him laugh. --Shak.

    A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all
    they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum
    of a Roman ship. --Addison.

    10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or
    draughts, are played.

    Note: Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a
    separate adjective, its sense being usually
    self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater,
    man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
    manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man
    midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped,
    manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man
    worship, etc.
    Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the
    male sex having a business which pertains to the thing
    spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound;
    ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman,
    fireman, repairman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where
    the combination is not familiar, or where some specific
    meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used
    as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as,
    apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man
    (as distinguished from woodman).

    {Man ape} (Zo["o]l.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla.

    {Man at arms}, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
    centuries for a soldier fully armed.

    {Man engine}, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
    people through considerable distances; specifically
    (Mining), a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend
    in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the
    shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod
    which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
    between the successive landings. A man steps from a
    landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next
    landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by
    successive stages.

    {Man Friday}, a person wholly subservient to the will of
    another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday.

    {Man of straw}, a puppet; one who is controlled by others;
    also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily.

    {Man-of-the earth} (Bot.), a twining plant ({Ipom[oe]a
    pandurata}) with leaves and flowers much like those of the
    morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous
    root.

    {Man of sin} (Script.), one who is the embodiment of evil,
    whose coming is represented (--2 Thess. ii. 3) as
    preceding the second coming of Christ. [A Hebraistic
    expression]

    {Man of war}.
    (a) A warrior; a soldier. --Shak.
    (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
    (c) See {Portuguese man-of-war} under {man-of-war} and
    also see {Physalia}.

    {Man-stopping bullet} (Mil.), a bullet which will produce a
    sufficient shock to stop a soldier advancing in a charge;
    specif., a small-caliber bullet so modified as to expand
    when striking the human body, producing a severe wound
    which is also difficult to treat medically. Types of
    bullets called {hollow-nosed bullets}, {soft-nosed
    bullets} and {hollow-point bullets} are classed as
    man-stopping. The {dumdum bullet} or {dumdum} is another
    well-known variety. Such bullets were originally designed
    for wars with savage tribes.

    {To be one's own man}, to have command of one's self; not to
    be subject to another.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

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