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Manation

The act of issuing or flowing out.

Manbote

A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant).

Manchester terrier

A breed of short-haired black-and-tan terrier developed in Manchester England.

Manchet

Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.

Manchineel

A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.

Manchu

Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Manchuria; also, the language spoken by the Manchus.

Manciple

A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.

Mancus

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.

Mandamus

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

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

mandarin duck

A showy crested Asiatic duck (Aix galericulata, formerly Dendronessa galericulata), often domesticated, and regarded by the Chinese as an emblem of conjugal affection.

mandarin orange

A shrub or small tree (Citrus reticulata) having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to Southeast Asia.

Mandarinate

The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.

Mandarining

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

A government by mandarins (senses 1 or 2); character or spirit of the mandarins{2}.

Mandatary

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.

Mandate

An official or authoritative command, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

Mandator

A director; one who gives a mandate or order.

Mandelic

Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.

Mandible

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.

Mandibular

Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible. The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.

mandibular joint

The joint between the head of the lower jawbone and the temporal bone.

Mandibuliform

Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.

Mandibulohyoid

Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.

mandil

A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.

Mandingos

An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.

Mandola

An instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower.

Mandore

A kind of four-stringed lute.

Mandragora

A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

Mandragorite

One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

mandrake

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 root

The root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic; as a substance it is also called mandrake.

Mandrel

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. The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

mandril

any of various shafts that rotate or serve as axes for larger rotating parts.

mandrill

A large West African baboon (Papio sphinx syn. Mandrillus sphinx, formerly Cynocephalus mormon syn. Papio mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red. It is an endangered species.

Manduca

A genus of moths whose larvae are hornworms.

Manducus

A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.

Mane

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.

maned sheep

A type of wild sheep (Ammotragus lervia) of northern Africa; called also Barbary sheep and aoudad.

maned wolf

A reddish-gray wolf (Canis rufus or Canis niger) of Southwestern North America.

Manege

The art of horsemanship, or of training horses.

Maneh

A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.

Manequin

An artist's model of wood or other material.

Manes

The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.

Manesheet

A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

Manful

Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.

Mangabey

Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus fuliginosus), which is sooty black.

Manganese

An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty (melting point 1244/ C), but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic number 25; Atomic weight 54.938 [C=12.011].

manganese bronze

A brass alloy having from 1 to 4 percent of manganese added to harden it; made by adding manganese to the copper and zinc used in brass.

Manganic

Of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous compounds. Cf. Manganous.

manganic acid

A dibasic acid H2MnO4, formed from manganese, analogous to sulphuric acid; it is found only in solution and in manganate salts.

Manganite

One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.

Manganous

Of, pertaining to, designating, those compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with manganic compounds; as, manganous oxide.

Mangcorn

A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain.

Mange

The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.

Mangel-wurzel

A kind of large field beet (Beta macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet.

manger

A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

Mangifera

genus of tropical trees native to Asia bearing fleshy fruit.

mangily

In a mangy manner; scabbily.

manginess

The condition or quality of being mangy.

Mangle

To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

mangle

A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure, often with heated rollers.

Mangler

One who smooths with a mangle.

Mango

The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

mango tree

An East Indian tree of the genus Mangifera (Mangifera Indica), related to the cashew and the sumac. It grows to a large size, and produces a large oval smooth-skinned fruit which is the mango of commerce. It is now cultivated in tropical America.

Mangonel

A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

Mangonism

The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage.

Mangonize

To furbish up for sale; to set off to advantage.

mangosteen tree Mangostan Mangosteen

A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (Garcinia Mangostana) with thick leathery leaves. The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

Mangrove

The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (Rhizophora Mangle, and Rhizophora mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.

mangrove family

A natural family (Rhizophoraceae) of trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts. It includes the mangrove Rhizophora Mangle.

mangrove snapper

A fish (Lutjanus griseus) found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida; called also gray snapper.

mangy

Infected with the mange; scabby.

Manhandle

To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon.

Manhattan Project

A former US agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II.

Manhole

A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

Manhood

The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.

manhunt

An organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime).

Mania

Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

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