Manciple (n.) A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
Mancona bark () See Sassy bark.
Mancus (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.
-mancy () A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.
Mand (n.) A demand.
Mandamus (n.) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.
Mandarin (n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
Mandarin (n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
Mandarinate (n.) The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.
Mandarinic (a.) Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
Mandarining (n.) The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid.
Mandarinism (n.) A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
Mandatary (n.) One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.
Mandatary (n.) One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory.
Mandate (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
Mandate (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.
Mandate (n.) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
Mandator (n.) A director; one who gives a mandate or order.
Mandator (n.) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.
Mandatory (a.) Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
Mandatory (n.) Same as Mandatary.
Mandelate (n.) A salt of mandelic acid.
Mandelic (a.) Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.
Mander (v. t. & i.) See Maunder.
Manderil (n.) A mandrel.
Mandible (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.
Mandible (n.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.
Mandibular (a.) Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.
Mandibular (n.) The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.
Mandibulate (a.) Alt. of Mandibulated
Mandibulated (a.) Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.
Mandibulate (n.) An insect having mandibles.
Mandibuliform (a.) Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
Mandibulohyoid (a.) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.
Mandil (n.) A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.
Mandilion (n.) See Mandil.
Mandingos (n. pl.) ; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.
Mandioc (n.) Alt. of Mandioca
Mandioca (n.) See Manioc.
Mandlestone (n.) Amygdaloid.
Mandment (n.) Commandment.
Mandolin (n.) Alt. of Mandoline
Mandoline (n.) A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.
Mandore (n.) A kind of four-stringed lute.
Mandragora (n.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.
Mandragorite (n.) One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.
Mandrake (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region.
Mandrake (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum.
Mandrel (n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.
Mandrel (n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.
Mandrill (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.
Manducable (a.) Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten.
Manducated (imp. & p. p.) of Manducate
Manducating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manducate
Manducate (v. t.) To masticate; to chew; to eat.
Manducation (n.) The act of chewing.
Manducatory (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.
Mane (n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.
Man-eater (n.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.
Maned (a.) Having a mane.
Manege (n.) Art of horsemanship, or of training horses.
Manege (n.) A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses.
Maneh (n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.
Maneless (a.) Having no mane.
Manequin (n.) An artist's model of wood or other material.
Manerial (a.) See Manorial.
Manes (n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.
Manesheet (n.) A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.
Maneuver (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre
Manoeuvre (n.) Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.
Manoeuvre (n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.
Maneuvered (imp. & p. p.) of Manoeuvre
Manoeuvred () of Manoeuvre
Maneuvering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manoeuvre
Manoeuvring () of Manoeuvre
Maneuver (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre
Manoeuvre (n.) To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.
Manoeuvre (n.) To manage with address or art; to scheme.
Maneuver (v. t.) Alt. of Manoeuvre
Manoeuvre (v. t.) To change the positions of, as of troops of ships.
Maneuverer (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvrer
Manoeuvrer (n.) One who maneuvers.
Manful (a.) Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
Mamgabey (n.) Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black.
Mangan (n.) See Mangonel.
Manganate (n.) A salt of manganic acid.
Manganesate (n.) A manganate.
Manganese (n.) An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8.
Manganesian (a.) Manganic.
Manganesic (a.) Manganic.
Manganesious (a.) Manganous.
Manganesium (n.) Manganese.
Manganesous (a.) Manganous.
Manganic (a.) Of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous compounds. Cf. Manganous.
Manganiferous (a.) Containing manganese.
Manganite (n.) One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.
Manganite (n.) A compound of manganese dioxide with a metallic oxide; so called as though derived from the hypothetical manganous acid.
Manganium (n.) Manganese.
Manganous (a.) Of, pertaining to, designating, those compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with manganic compounds; as, manganous oxide.