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manikin

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The terms " manikin " and " mannikin " may refer to: Manikin , a life-sized human doll used in medical education Mannequin , a life-sized human doll used especially in sales Lunchura , a genus of bird which includes mannikins (not to be confused with manakins ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of mannequin English) 2 a short person 3 a life-size anatomical model used as a teaching aid

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manikin \Man"i*kin\, n. [Also spelled mannikin .] [OD. manneken, dim. of man man. See Man , and -kin .] 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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He himself had acquired a cadaverous appearance; a shrinking manikin within his leather and steel-scale carapace. ▪ On it was a bronze manikin with a grotesquely enormous erect phallus. ▪ The manikin threw a malevolent look at ...

Usage examples of manikin.

From its contents, Lord Pastern, who was dextrous in such matters, had concocted manikins, fly-traps and tiny ships.

The corpses had been shrunk by the fierce heat into black, brittle manikins that smelt disturbingly of roasted pork.

Obviously, such retroactive witchcraft was worthy of further investigation, and the key was the synergetic geometry of the Fuller tetrahedron in which he had kept his manikin during the spell-casting.

The corpses had been shrunk by the fierce heat into black, brittle manikins that smelt disturbingly of roasted pork.

The girl, the prince, his guards seemed like tiny manikins, their shadows dancing in the pale glow of torches.

Jason wandered through the aisles, studying manikins, touching the fabric, making his own appraisals.

Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner.

The suit, pressurized at three and a half pounds per square inch, was like a balloon around her, and it kept her body stiff, like a manikin, and she couldn't save herself.

And in Grandfather Staunton's office I had found a curious Students' aid called Philips' Popular Manikin, which was a cardboard man who opened up to show his insides, and who had very discreet privy parts like my own.

Grown around a manikin form over the course of years and under painstakingly con trolled conditions.

He dropped them to the floor, and sat on the back of the fallen manikin, and began carefully peeling the Yeibichai mask from the mass of blue-gray plastic which had been pressed into it.