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Maner, n.² Also: -ere, -ar, -ore, -owr, -ure, manno(u)r, -ur. [ME. maner(e (c 1290), -ayr(e, -oyr, -oir (14–15th c.), OF. manoir dwelling, habitation, noun f. manoir v. inf., to dwell, and med. L. manerium.]

1. A large country residence, a mansion. 1375 Barb. xvi. 337.
In the hawch of Lyntoun-le He gert thame mak a fair maner. And quhen the housis biggit wer [etc.] ?1438 Alex. ii. 2149.
He sall swere ȝow … That he sall na chaip this maner [F. il ne partira de ceste manandie] c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2429.
The Kingis of Thesaly war wount … to herbery in that maner a1540 Freiris Berw. 52.
Swa wynnit thair ane woundir gude hostillar, Without the toun, in till a fair manar 16.. Ouchterlony in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 25.
Ane other litle mott … called to this day Queen's Manore

2. The chief dwelling-house of an estate, also manerhouse; = Chemis n.1426 Acts (see Maner-place n.). — 1440 Cop. St. A. 197.
He sall uphald and sustene oure maner in the said oure landis, that is to say, oure hall, chaumer [etc.] 1605 Acts Sederunt i. 62.
From our manowr of Greenwich 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 427.
The thanedome of Kincardin, with the mannor, castle and parke thereof — 1627 Rep. Parishes 43.
The Schankis pendicle geving denominatioun to the haill becaus the maner house wes built thairvpone 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 225.
Lord Lovat … had a great manure house in Inverness

3. A country mansion or manor-house with the land attached to it; a landed estate. c1420 Bute MS. fol. 141.
Tyl a certan place that is to say maner tenement with in maynys or som certane place be name of that lordschyp a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 408.
Mony kynrik to his clame, cumly to knaw, Maneris full menskfull a1500 Bk. Chess 2036.
To be a lord but maner or but micht It is a scorne to euery mannis sicht 1492 Acta Conc. I. 253/1.
That he tak summondis apon the mannvris of the saidis landis 1516 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii. 50.
[He had infeft her … with a new house] situat within my manere and mansioun of the Kelhead 1542–3 Reg. Privy S. III. 9/1.
Baronie de Melgund vocata North Melgund, terris dominicalibus vocatis le maner de North Melgund 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 8.
In all … Southerland ther is not a toun, village or mannour without the commodity either of the sea or of a river