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- English Word Manca Definition See Mancus.
- English Word Manche Definition A sleeve.
- English Word Manchet Definition Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.
- English Word Manchineel Definition A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.
- English Word Manchu Definition Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants.
- English Word Manchu Definition A native or inhabitant of Manchuria; also, the language spoken by the Manchus.
- English Word Mancipate Definition To enslave; to bind; to restrict.
- English Word Mancipation Definition Slavery; involuntary servitude.
- English Word Manciple Definition A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
- English Word Mancona bark Definition See Sassy bark.
- English Word Mancus Definition 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.
- English Word Mand Definition A demand.
- English Word Mandamus Definition 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.
- English Word Mandarin Definition A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
- English Word Mandarin Definition 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 --.
- English Word Mandarinate Definition The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.
- English Word Mandarinic Definition Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
- English Word Mandarining Definition 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.
- English Word Mandarinism Definition A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
- English Word Mandatary Definition 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.
- English Word Mandatary Definition One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory.
- English Word Mandate Definition An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
- English Word Mandate Definition 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.
- English Word Mandate Definition A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
- English Word Mandator Definition A director; one who gives a mandate or order.
- English Word Mandator Definition The person who employs another to perform a mandate.
- English Word Mandatory Definition Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
- English Word Mandatory Definition Same as Mandatary.
- English Word Mandelate Definition A salt of mandelic acid.
- English Word Mandelic Definition Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.