noun. In the Bible, the food miraculously provided for the Israelites in the wilderness during their flight from Egypt.

noun. Spiritual nourishment of divine origin.

noun. Something of value that a person receives unexpectedly.

noun. A dried exudate of certain plants, especially the Eurasian ash tree Fraxinus ornus, formerly used as a laxative.

noun. A sweet granular substance excreted on the leaves of plants by certain insects, especially scale insects and aphids, sometimes harvested for food.

noun. The food by which the children of Israel were sustained in the wilderness (Ex. xvi. 14-36; Num. xi. 6, 7).

noun. Hence Delicious food for either the body or the mind; delectable material for nourishment or entertainment.

noun. Divine or spiritual food.

noun. In pharmacy, a sweet concrete juice obtained by incisions made in the stem of Fraxinus Ornus, a native of Sicily, Calabria, and other parts of the south of Europe, and from other species of ash.

noun. The secretion of the tamarisk, Tamarix Gallica, var. mannifera. It is a honey-like liquid which exudes from punctures made by an insect, hardens on the stems, and drops to the ground. It is collected by the Arabs as a delicacy.

noun. The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. a scale insect (Gossyparia mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarix tree in Arabia.

noun. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.

noun. By extension, any good thing which comes into one's hands by luck or good fortune.

noun. hardened sugary exudation of various trees

noun. (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus

"Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people] [Shakespeare is not more exact in any thing, than in adapting his images with propriety to his speakers; of which he has here given an instance in making the young Jewess call good fortune, _manna_."

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