Manual

1. a. A prescribed exercise in the systematic handing of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece (cannon, mortar, etc.).
2. a. Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king’s sign manual.
3. a. A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; a handbook; specifically, the service book of the Roman Catholic Church.
4. a. A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.