| Adonis | [pron: a'dohnis] handsome young man loved by Aphrodite (Greek goddess of sexual love) or (in Roman mythology) Venus |
| Althaea | [al'thaya] mother of Meleager, whose life-span was determined by the preservation of a magic log; when Althaea burnt the log on a fire, Meleager died |
| Anthropophagi | [pron: anthroh'pofajiy] mythical race of man-eaters |
| anthropophaginian | man-eater, cannibal |
| apron-man | aproned worker, tradesman |
| artist | scholar, intellectual, learned man |
| arts-man | man of learning, scholar |
| bachelor | unmarried person [man or woman] |
| bachelor | young man |
| band | body of men, troop |
| Barbary cock-pigeon | type of pigeon from the Barbary coast; [reputedly of Eastern men] man who jealously safeguards his wife |
| blood | man of fire, hot-blooded fellow, spirited youth |
| bone | (plural) man, person |
| book-man | scholar, student |
| cap | [men] soft brimless head-dress; [women] loose-fitting decorative head-dress |
| carpet-monger | frequenter of [carpeted] boudoirs, ladies' man |
| cate-log | [idiosyncratic pronunciation of] catalogue, inventory, register |
| Centaur | creature with the upper half of a man and the rear legs of a horse; reputed for bestial behaviour |
| centurion | commander of 100 men in the Roman legion |
| chamberer | frequenter of ladies' chambers, drawing-room man of fashion |
| champion | warrior, fighter, man of valour |
| chivalry | knights, men-at-arms |
| chronicle | register, log, put on record [as] |
| Circe | [pron: 'ser'see] enchantress who detained Odysseus and his followers on the isle of Aeaea, transforming his’ men into swine with a magic drink |
| clerk | scholar, sage, man of learning |
| codpiece | cloth case or pocket worn by a man at the front of breeches or hose; also: what it contains |
| command | troop, body of men, force |
| corpse | body of a man, dead body |
| cot-quean | man acting the housewife, meddler in household affairs |
| courage | young man of bravado, man of spirit |
| creature | man, human |
| crew | band, company, body of men |
| cuckold | [mocking name] dishonour a man by making his wife unfaithful |
| cuckold | [mocking name] man with an unfaithful wife |
| Damon | ['daymon] man from Syracuse seen as a model of faithful friendship, offering his life to help his friend Pythias |
| dead men's fingers | [unclear] probably a type of wild orchis |
| Dives | [pron: 'deevez] in the Bible, a rich man who feasted while the beggar Lazarus starved at his gate |
| dividual | different, separate [i.e. between man and woman] |
| divine | high-priest, holy man |
| doctor | learned man, scholar; or: astrologer, physician |
| double-man | apparition, wraith, spectre |
| doublet | man's close-fitting jacket with short skirt |
| drayman | man who drives a cart without wheels [a dray] |
| Dun | horse's name [involving the lifting of a log ‘horse’ in a Christmas game called ‘drawing dun out of the mire’] |
| eld | men of old, people from former times |
| fair | time of youth, favourable opportunity [as a young man] |
| father | old man, venerable sir |
| fire-drake | fiery being, dragon, man with a fiery nose |
| gallant | fine gentleman, man of fashion |
| gallant | man-of-war, warship |
| gallant | man-of-war, warship |
| glutton | rich man in the Dives and Lazarus parable |
| gown | loose upper garment worn by men |
| grandsire | old man, aged person |
| groom | serving-man, servant, male attendant |
| Hagar | [pron: 'haygahr] in the Bible, bondwoman to Sarah, whose child was Ishmael, a 'wild-ass of a man' |
| harness | armed men, men-at-arms, armament |
| he | man, person |
| homicide | killer of men, murderer, slayer |
| hoodman | blind man [a call in Blind Man's Buff] |
| hoodman-blind | blind-man's buff |
| jack | figure of a man who strikes a bell on the outside of a clock |
| Jack | serving-man |
| juvenal | youth, young man |
| lad | serving-man, man of low birth [not necessarily young] |
| Leander | [li'ander] young man in love with Hero, who lived on the opposite side of the Hellespont; each night he swam across, guided by her lamp |
| levy | recruitment of soldiers, conscription of men |
| man | attend, serve, wait on [by] |
| man | human nature, humanity [as opposed to beasts] |
| man | manliness, courage, valour |
| man | manhood, maturity, adulthood |
| man | agent, representative |
| man | employ, exert, send out |
| man | servant, attendant, lackey |
| man | [falconry] tame, make tractable |
| man at arms | fully equipped soldier, heavily armed warrior |
| man of wax | faultless, perfect [as of a wax model] |
| mandrake | variety of poisonous plant [whose long forked root was thought to resemble a man's legs and private parts; thus, with aphrodisiac properties] |
| man-entered | entered into manhood |
| manikin | little man, puppet |
| mankind | man-like woman, virago; or: mad, furious, infuriated |
| mankind | man-like, mannish |
| mannish | of a man, adult, mature |
| man-of-arms | soldier, fighting man |
| man-queller | man-killer |
| market-man | man who trades in a market |
| martialist | soldier, military man [i.e. follower of Mars] |
| Meleager | [pron: melee'ager] son of Althaea, his life-span determined by an unburnt magic log; he murdered his uncles in a quarrel over the killing of a boar ravaging the fields in Calydon; in her rage Althaea burnt Meleager’s log on a fire, and he died |
| Misanthropos | man-hater |
| more | men of high and low rank |
| morris, nine men's | area marked out in squares for playing nine men's morris [a type of open-air game using nine ‘men’ on each side] |
| muster-file | official list of men |
| novi | I know the man as well as I know you |
| pantaloon | old man, dotard [i.e. one wearing pantaloons = breeches] |
| please-man | yes-man, sycophant, toady |
| press | commission to raise men |
| pretty | [of men] fine, good-looking |
| Proteus | ['prohtius] old man of the sea, shepherd of Poseidon's flock, with the ability to change his shape |
| scholar | learned man, erudite person [who knows Latin, the language of exorcism] |
| semblable | fellow-man, anything of the same nature |
| serving-creature | [derisive term for] serving-man |
| set | log, make note, put on record |
| shadow | fictitious name, invented man |
| singing-man | professional musician belonging to a royal chapel or cathedral |
| sir | man, person, individual |
| slaughterman, slaughter-man | executioner, slayer, murderer |
| spark | young blade, man about town, dude |
| statist | statesman, politician, man of affairs |
| swain | man, youth, young fellow |
| three-man-song | capable of singing three-part songs |
| treble-dated | living three times as long as man |
| trencher-man | hearty eater, good feeder, man of appetite |
| Typhon | giant, half man half animal, who fought against the Olympian gods |
| ungartered | untied, not wearing a garter [a sign of a lovesick man] |
| vir | it's a wise man that says little |
| whitebeard | old man, patriarch, old-timer |
| wittol | compliant cuckold, man who accepts his wife's infidelity |
| yeoman | man who owns property but is not a gentleman; land-holding farmer |
| younker | fashionable young man, fine young gentleman |