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noun

Manikin n. (Also spelled mannikin)

A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.

A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.

A mannequin.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manikin" Quotes from Famous Books

... wherein the devil's brides were burned at Wolgast, the fool was walking at evening time up and down the great corridor, when a little manikin, hardly three hands high, started out from behind a beer-barrel, riding on a three-legged hare. He was dressed all in black, except little red boots which he had on, and he rides up and down the corridor—hop! hop! hop!—stares at my fool and makes a face ...

— Sidonia The Sorceress V1 • William Mienhold

... toilettes, and a certain odor of india-rubber, which makes one believe that at night they slip themselves into a case of that material. When I meet one of these people in a hotel, I act like birds which see a manikin in ...

— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant

... diminutive legs—who had mastered five languages yet could not speak or understand a word of any one of them,—struck me as rather pleasant, to say the least; yet, after a moment's reflection,—wasn't he the very thing I wanted, the manikin, ...

— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various

... curious that the Japanese should have anticipated Europe in a kind of rude regional anatomy. I have seen a manikin of Japanese make traced all over with lines, and points marking their intersection. By this their doctors are guided in the performance of acupuncture, marking the safe places to thrust in needles, as we buoy out our ship-channels, and doubtless indicating ...

— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... mystery, I see no reason to speculate how or why it came to pass that Corona, who already possessed two pink and waxen girl-dolls, and treated them with the merest contempt, took this black manikin of a Golliwog straight to her heart to share its ...

— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... a word of what was said the little manikin of a militario was so frightened by the big fellow's gestures as to spring back several feet, with a look of alarm so intense, yet so comical, as to set the Texan off into a roar of laughter. And still laughing, he faced towards the sewer, plunged in his implement, and set to ...

— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid

Words linked to "Manikin" : small person, form, assistant, dummy, supporter, homunculus, mannikin, fashion model, manakin, helper