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noun

Manna n.

(Script.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

(Bot.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food; called also manna lichen.

(Bot. & Med.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and Fraxinus rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe. Note: Persian manna is the secretion of the camel's thorn (see Camel's thorn, under Camel); Tamarisk manna, that of the Tamarisk mannifera, a shrub of Western Asia; Australian, manna, that of certain species of eucalyptus; Briançon manna, that of the European larch.

Manna insect (Zool), a scale insect (Gossyparia mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarix tree in Arabia.

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"Manna" Quotes from Famous Books

... called their attention to something else—something that was not visible. He wrinkled his nose, but his sniff indicated gusto. "Smell it? It's food for the Children of Israel. Not manna. But it will fit the occasion, I hope. It's a barbecue. A whole ox and all ...

— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day

... tinned food and coffee boiled over a little spirit stove, Anstice was in no mood to criticize anything which Iris set before him. Indeed he could hardly take his eyes from her as she ministered to him; and the food he ate might have been manna for anything he knew ...

— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes

... grouse? You shall have some to dinner to-night that fell by his gun. That should mollify you, for I am sure you never got grouse at the cottage before in August. Mamma would as soon think of buying manna ...

— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant

... na cha'i Morganiaeth,—na gwenwyn O geuneint Derwyddiaeth, Fwrw'u dilyf ar dalaeth, Yn hwy'n lle manna a llaeth. ...

— Gwaith Alun • Alun

... Heavenly Manna, Threefold Cord, the Lord's Supper, Dew-Drops, etc.: with other issues of the Society, comprising upwards of two hundred volumes, in fine paper, printing, and binding; many of those for the young being beautifully illustrated. No works in the English language are better adapted for ...

— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society

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