[mey-neez; Lat. mah-nes] 
| 1. | (used with a plural verb ) Roman Religion. the souls of the dead; shades. |
| 2. | (used with a singular verb) the spirit or shade of a particular dead person. |
[meyn] | 1. | the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion. |
| 2. | Informal. (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair. |
| mane (mān) n.
[Middle English, from Old English manu.] |
| ma·nes or Ma·nes (mā'nēz', mä'nās') pl.n.
[Middle English, from Latin mānēs, perhaps from mānis, good; see mā-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
| Ma·nes (mā'nēz) Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism. His religious movement, a rival to early Christianity, professed that the world is a fusion of the equal but opposite forces of good and evil. |