To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of life; a director; a regulator.
Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator
A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directing flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
Of or pertaining to the hand.
Performed by a person using physical as contrasted with mental effort; as, manual labor.
Done or made by the hand. In some contexts, contrasted with automatic or mechanical.
A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.
A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.
A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).