Crossword clues for manna
manna
- Heavenly fare
- Unexpected aid
- It's heaven-sent
- Heavenly bread
- Heaven-sent sustenance
- Exodus food
- Divine sustenance
- Old Testament food (from heaven?)
- Nourishment of divine origin
- Heavenly provisions
- Heavenly nourishment
- Exodus sustenance
- Exodus describes its fall
- Divinely given food
- Biblical sustenance
- Wilderness food
- Unexpected help from heaven
- Sustenance from the heavens
- Sustenance from heaven
- Sustenance from above
- Sustenance for the Israelites
- Sudden help
- Nourishment from above
- Miraculous sustenance
- Miraculous food, in the Bible
- Miracle food from above
- Meal for Moses
- It fell from heaven
- Heaven-sent stuff
- Gratuitous benefit
- Food that's heavenly?
- Food that fell from heaven
- Food that falls on the ground
- Food for the wandering Israelites
- Food for the gathering?
- Food drop fare
- Exodus miracle
- Exodus fare
- Exodus edibles
- Exodus edible
- Edible godsend
- Biblical miracle food
- Angel food?
- "Exodus" food
- Heaven-sent food
- Heaven-sent help
- Food from heaven
- Heavenly gift
- Food in Exodus 16
- Exodus miracle food
- Food of the gods
- Heavenly edible
- It fell in the Old Testament
- It's a godsend
- Fall cuisine?
- Divine dish
- Food in the Bible
- It's described as fine and flakelike in Exodus
- Hardened sugary exudation of various trees
- (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the exodus
- Windfall
- Spiritual food
- Juice from an ash tree
- Unexpected plenty
- Divine food
- Heavenly food?
- Heavenly cuisine
- Biblical food
- Kind of grass
- Spiritual sustenance
- Unexpected gain
- Food for Moses' people
- Any sudden aid
- Stroke of luck
- Heavenly sustenance
- Heavenly diet
- Food described in Exodus
- Spiritual nourishment
- Miraculous menu
- Soul food
- Miraculous food, in Exodus
- Natasha's heart stolen by guy's divine gift
- Heavenly food in fashion, we hear
- Heavenly dish
- Divine nourishment
- Miracle food in Exodus
- Miraculous fare
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manna \Man"na\ (m[a^]n"n[.a]), n. [L., fr. Gr. ma`nna, Heb. m[=a]n; cf. Ar. mann, properly, gift (of heaven).]
(Script.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
--Ex. xvi. 15.(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.
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(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; Brian[,c]on manna, that of the European larch.
Manna insect (Zo["o]l), a scale insect ( Gossyparia mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarix tree in Arabia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English borrowing from Late Latin manna, from Greek manna, from Hebrew man, probably literally "substance exuded by the tamarisk tree," but used in Greek and Latin specifically with reference to the substance miraculously supplied to the Children of Israel during their wandering in the Wilderness (Ex. xvi:15). Meaning "spiritual nourishment" is attested from late 14c. Generalized sense of "something provided unexpectedly" is from 1590s.
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. hardened sugary exudation of various trees
(Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus [syn: miraculous food, manna from heaven]
Wikipedia
Manna or al-Mann wa al-Salwa (, , ), sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is an edible substance that, according to the Bible and the Qur'an, God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert.
Manna is a 2003 science fiction essay by Marshall Brain that explores several issues in modern information technology and user interfaces, including some around transhumanism. Some of its predictions, like the proliferation of automation and AI in the fast food industry, are becoming true years later.
Manna is the third album released by Bread in 1971. The title, like that of the preceding album On the Waters, is a Biblical pun on the name Bread, this time to the manna from Heaven fed to the Israelites. Although this was not literally Bread (the word Manna simply means "What is it?") it has often been metaphorically described as bread from Heaven.
The singles "Let Your Love Go" and "If" were released from this album.
SM Aslam Talukder (6 December 1964 – 17 February 2008), better known by stage name Manna, was a Bangladeshi film actor and producer. He performed in more than two hundreds films and achieved National Film Award as the "Best Actor" in 2006.
Manna (1922–1939) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse an sire. In a career which lasted from summer 1924 until September 1925, Manna ran four times, winning eight races. As a three-year-old in 1925 he won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and the Epsom Derby by a record margin of eight lengths. Manna was retired after breaking down in his bid to win the Triple Crown in the St. Leger at Doncaster. He later had a successful career at stud.
Manna is the food produced for the Israelites in the desert, as described in the Biblical book of Exodus.
Manna may also refer to:
- crystallized products of plant sap, especially when rich in sugars and used as a source of food by people or animals, in particular saps of:
- manna ash ( Fraxinus ornus)
- European ash ( Fraxinus excelsior)
- narrow-leafed ash ( Fraxinus angustifolia)
- Alhagi maurorum (Alhagi manna)
- Eucalyptus or Australian manna:
- Eucalyptus viminalis
- Eucalyptus gunnii
- Eucalyptus pulverulenta
Usage examples of "manna".
My brother Masons swear by the blood that they are ready to sacrifice everything for their neighbor, but they do not give a ruble each to the collections for the poor, and they intrigue, the Astraea Lodge against the Manna Seekers, and fuss about an authentic Scotch carpet and a charter that nobody needs, and the meaning of which the very man who wrote it does not understand.
I went to visit a grand old aunt I had in the country, the other when she visited us, arriving with a wagon-load of jam, jelly, salt-rising bread, pound-cake, and other unpurchasable manna.
Though a queen as well as a Siren before she had married Saul, she was used to this poor little desert kingdom without fixed boundaries, and many times she had fled with her household before the advance of Philistines, Ammonites, or Moabites and lived for weeks on lizards and manna.
Hart showing up with Earl Millhouse was like manna from Heaven, for, while questioning him, Trent discovered that Art Bertram was the man they sought.
The following list of articles, forming the food of the West Australian, is from the Journal of the last-named explorer:--Six sorts of kangaroo, twenty-nine sorts of fish, one kind of whale, two species of seal, wild dogs, three kinds of turtle, emus, wild turkeys, two species of opossum, eleven kinds of frogs, four kinds of fresh water shell fish, every sort of sea shell fish, except oysters, four kinds of edible grubs, eggs of birds awl lizards, five animals of the rabbit class, eight sorts of snakes, seven sorts of iguanas, nine species of mice and rats, twenty-nine sorts of roots, seven kinds of fungis, four sorts of gum, two sorts of manna, two species of by-yu, or the nut of the zamia palm, two species of mesembry and themum, two kinds of small nuts, four sorts of wild fruit, besides the seeds of several plants.
Many townspeople treated the hippies in a similar fashion, looking upon them as a sort of manna from heaven, hiring them--for example--to make adobes, because the freaks learned fast and were willing--again out of middle-class guilt, and also because they were independently wealthy anyway--to labor eight or ten hours a day at what amounted to slave wages.
They consisted principally of casuarinas and eucalypti, some of which next year would yield a sweet manna, similar to the manna of the East.
With Selena firmly settled, Shimm led the Changelings across the small life zone to the edge of the rocks where a large patch of die silvery manna grew.
The Changelings were in fusion, their opalescent eyes fixed upon the remaining manna.
She sensed a flow of energy from Changelings to manna and was reminded of the strength which Shimm had once given to her.
Manna will not grow in caverns, no matter how we Changelings encourage it.
It is then visited by those elevated meditations which are the proper aliment of noble souls, and are, like manna, sent from heaven, in the wilderness of this world.
This means manna to the energy companies: thirty-four million suckers to take advantage of.
Martins and finches, goatskins and ram skins, dates, filberts, walnuts, salted sturgeon tails, round pepper, ginger, saffron, cloves, nutmegs, spike, cardamoms, scammony, manna, lac, zedoary, incense, quicksilver, copper, amber, pounding pearls, borax, gum arabic, sweetmeats, gold wire, wines, dragon's blood rubies, loaded dice, and beautiful dancing girls.
Are not opposition, despiteful anger, slander even, rejection of men, stripes even, if such there could be in these days, manna to the devout soul consciously set apart for a mission?