MANUAL (manualis), in law, signifies what is employed or used by the hand, and whereof a present profit may be made: as such a thing in the manual
occupation of one is where it is actually used or employed by him.
MANUAL is the name of a service-book used in the church of Rome, containing the rites, directions to the priests, and prayers used in the administration of baptism and other sacraments; the form of blessing holy water, and the whole service used in processions.