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   Manage (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Managed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Managing (?).] [From Manage, n.]
   1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.
   
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   Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed. Sir I. Newton.
   
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   What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain. Prior.
   
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   2. Hence, Esp.: to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.
   
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   It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. Addison.
   
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   It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant. Bp. Hurd.
   
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   3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
   
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   4. To treat with care; to husband.  Dryden.
   
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   5. To bring about; to contrive.  Shak.
   
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   Syn. -- To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.
   
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