or MANICORD, a musical instrument in form of a spinet; the strings of which, like those of the clairichord, are covered with little pieces of cloth, to deaden as well as to soften their sound, whence it is also called the dumb spinet.

MANIFESTO; a public declaration made by a prince in writing, showing his intentions to begin a war or other enterprise, with the motives that induce him to it, and the reasons on which he founds his rights and pretensions.