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- English Word Mander Definition See Maunder.
- English Word Manderil Definition A mandrel.
- English Word Mandible Definition 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.
- English Word Mandible Definition The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.
- English Word Mandibular Definition Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.
- English Word Mandibular Definition The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.
- English Word Mandibulate Definition Alt. of Mandibulated
- English Word Mandibulate Definition An insect having mandibles.
- English Word Mandibulated Definition Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.
- English Word Mandibuliform Definition Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- English Word Mandibulohyoid Definition Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.
- English Word Mandil Definition A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.
- English Word Mandilion Definition See Mandil.
- English Word Mandingos Definition ; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.
- English Word Mandioc Definition Alt. of Mandioca
- English Word Mandioca Definition See Manioc.
- English Word Mandlestone Definition Amygdaloid.
- English Word Mandment Definition Commandment.
- English Word Mandolin Definition Alt. of Mandoline
- English Word Mandoline Definition A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.
- English Word Mandore Definition A kind of four-stringed lute.
- English Word Mandragora Definition A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.
- English Word Mandragorite Definition One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.
- English Word Mandrake Definition 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.
- English Word Mandrake Definition The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum.
- English Word Mandrel Definition 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.
- English Word Mandrel Definition The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.
- English Word Mandrill Definition 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.
- English Word Manducable Definition Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten.
- English Word Manducate Definition To masticate; to chew; to eat.