Brewer's: Unmanned

(2 syl.). A man reduced to tears. It is a term in falconry applied to a hawk not yet subservient to man, metaphorically, having lost the spirit, etc., of a man.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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