Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Manage \Man"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Managed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Managing}.] [From {Manage}, n.]
   1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide;
      to administer; to treat; to handle.

            Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily
            managed.                              --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.

            What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain. --Prior.

   2. Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to
      wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct;
      to bring around cunningly to one's plans.

            It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant
            subjects.                             --Addison.

            It was not her humor to manage those over whom she
            had gained an ascendant.              --Bp. Hurd.

   3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in
      graceful or artful action.

   4. To treat with care; to husband. --Dryden.

   5. To bring about; to contrive. --Shak.

   Syn: To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive;
        concert; conduct; transact.