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

Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.

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

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

To enslave; to bind; to restrict.

Slavery; involuntary servitude.

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

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.

A demand.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

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.

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

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.

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

A director; one who gives a mandate or order.

Same as Mandatary.

A salt of mandelic acid.

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

See Maunder.

A mandrel.

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.

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

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

An insect having mandibles.

Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.

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

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

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

See Mandil.

An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.

See Manioc.

Amygdaloid.

Commandment.

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

A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.

A kind of four-stringed lute.

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

One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from 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.

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

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.

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

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.

A genus of moths whose larvae are hornworms.

Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten.

To masticate; to chew; to eat.

The act of chewing.

Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

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

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.

Having a mane.

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

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

The art of horsemanship, or of training horses.

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

An artist's model of wood or other material.

See Manorial.

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

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

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

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

See Mangonel.

A salt of manganic acid.

A manganate.

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].

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.

Manganic.

Manganous.

Manganese.

Manganous.

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

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

Containing manganese.

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

Manganese.

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

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

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

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.

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

Same as mangy.

genus of tropical trees native to Asia bearing fleshy fruit.

In a mangy manner; scabbily.

The condition or quality of being mangy.

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

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

One who smooths with a mangle.

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.

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.

See Mangel-wurzel.

A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage.

One who mangonizes.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The kusimanse.

Infected with the mange; scabby.

See Menhaden.

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

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

Manhood.

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

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

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

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

Manageable.

Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.

A raving lunatic; a madman.

Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac.

Of or pert. to, or characterized by, mania, or excitement; frenzied; as, with manic energy.

An affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently.