Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 12
Manciple (n.) A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court. -- Chaucer.
Compare: Sassy bark
Sassy bark (Bot.) The bark of a West African leguminous tree ({Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; -- called also mancona bark.
Mancona bark () See Sassy bark.
Mancus (n.) [AS.] 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. [Obs.] See Demand.
Mandamus (n.) (Law) 【律】（上級法院給下級法院、官吏、機關的）執行令；命令書 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.
Mandamus (n.) An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail [syn: mandamus, writ of mandamus].
Mandamus, () practice. The name of a writ, the principal word of which when the proceedings were in Latin, was mandamus, we command.
Mandamus, () It is a command issuing in the name of the sovereign authority from a superior court having jurisdiction, and is directed to some person, corporation, or, inferior court, within the jurisdiction of such superior court, requiring them to do some particular thing therein specified, which appertains to their office and duty, and which the superior court has previously determined, or at least supposes to be consonant to right and justice. 20 Pick. 484; 21 Pick. 258; Dudley, 37; 4 Humph. 437.
Mandamus, () Mandamus is not a writ of right, it is not consequently granted of course, but only at the discretion of the court to whom the application for it is made; and this discretion is not exercised in favor of the applicant, unless some just and useful purpose may be answered by the writ. 2 T. R. 385; 1 Cowen's R. 501; 11 Shepl. 151; 1 Pike, 11.
Mandamus, () This writ was introduced to prevent disorders from a failure of justice; therefore it ought to be used upon all occasions where the law has established no specific remedy, and where in justice and good government there ought to be one. 3 Burr. R. 1267; 1 T. R. 148, 9.; 2 Pick. 414; 4 Pick. 68; 10 Pick. 235, 244; 7 Mass; 340; 3 Binn. 273; 5 Halst. 57; Cooke, 160; 1 Wend. 318; 5 Pet. 190; 1 Caines, R. 511; John. Cas. 181; 12 Wend. 183; 8 Pet. 291; 12 Pet. 524; 2 Penning. 1024; Hardin, 172; 7 Wheat. 534; 5 Watts. 152; 2 H. & M. 132; 3 H. & M. 1; 1 S. & R. 473; 5 Binn. 87; 3 Conn. 243; 2 Virg. Cas. 499; 5 Call. 548. Mandamus will not lie where the law has given another specific remedy. 1 Wend. 318; 10 John. 484; 1 Cow. 417; Coleman, 117; 1 Pet. 567; 2 Cowen, 444; 2 McCord, 170; Minor, 46; 2 Leigh, 165; Const. Rep. 165, 175, 703.
Mandamus, () The 13th section of the act of congress of September, 24, 1789, gives the supreme court power to issue writs of mandamus in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States. The issuing of a mandamus to courts, is the exercise of an appellate jurisdiction, and, therefore constitutionally vested in the supreme court; but a mandamus directed to a public officer, belongs to original jurisdiction, and by the constitution, the exercise of original jurisdiction by the supreme court is restricted to certain specified cases, which do not comprehend a mandamus. The latter clause of the above section, authorizing this writ to be issued by the supreme court, to persons holding office under the authority of the United States, is, therefore, not warranted by the constitution, and void. 1 Cranch, R. 175.
Mandamus, () The circuit courts of the United States may also issue writs of mandamus, but their power in this particular, is confined exclusively to those cases in which it may be necessary to the exercise of their jurisdiction. 7 Cranch, R. 504; 8 Wheat. R. 598; 1 Paine's R. 453. Vide, generally, 3 Bl. Com. 110; Com. Dig. h. t; Bac. Ab. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; Selw. N. P. h.t.; Chit. Pr. h.t.; Serg. Const. Index, h.t.; Ang. on Corp. Index, h.t.; 3 Chit. Bl. Com. 265 n. 7; 1 Kent. Com. 322; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 6 Watts & Serg. 386, 397; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; and the article "Courts of the United States."
Mandarin (n.) 柑橘；柑橘樹；（M-）華語；中國的官話（北京話）；（舊時的）官僚；（滿清的）官吏 A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
Mandarin (n.) Hence: A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.
Mandarin (n.) Hence: A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; -- used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties.
Mandarin (n.) The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.
Mandarin (n.) Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing.
Mandarin (n.) (Bot.) A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species ({Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine.
Mandarin language, The spoken or colloquial language of educated people in China.
Mandarin yellow (Chem.), An artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline.
Mandarin (n.) Shrub or small tree 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 southeastern Asia [syn: mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata].
Mandarin (n.) A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
Mandarin (n.) Any high government official or bureaucrat
Mandarin (n.) A high public official of imperial China
Mandarin (n.) A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China [syn: mandarin, mandarin orange].
Mandarin (n.) The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China [syn: Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect].
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. -- S. W. Williams.
Mandarinic (a.) Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
Mandarining (n.) (Dyeing) 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. -- Tomlinson.
Mandarinism (n.) A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins. [2]. -- F. Lieder.
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. -- Ayliffe.
Mandatary (n.) (Law) One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory. --Wharton.
Mandatary (n.) The recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory].
Mandatary, () contracts. One who undertakes to perform a mandate. Jones' Bailm. 53; Story on Bailm. 38. Dr. Halifax calls him mandatee. Halif. Anal. Civ. Law, 70, Sec. 16, 17.
Mandatary, () It is the duty of a mere mandatory, it is said, to take ordinary care of the property entrusted to him. Vide Negligence. But it has been held that he is liable only for gross negligence. 14 S. & R. 275; 2 Hawks, R. 145; 2 Murph. R. 373; 3 Dana, R. 205; 3 Mason, R. 132; 11 Wend, R. 25; Wright, R. 598; 1 Bouv. 1st. n. 1073.
Mandate (n.) 命令，指令，要求 An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear
Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. -- Dryden.
Mandate (n.) Hence: (Politics) An authorization to carry out a specific public policy, given by the electorate to their representatives; -- it is considered to be implied by the election of a candidate by a significant margin after that candidate has campaigned with that policy as a prominent element of the campaign platform.
Mandate (n.) Hence: Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony; as, termination of the British mandate in Palestine.
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.
Mandate (n.) A document giving an official instruction or command [syn: {mandate}, {authorization}, {authorisation}].
Mandate (n.) A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves [syn: {mandate}, {mandatory}].
Mandate (n.) The commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory.
Mandate (v.) (v. t.) 委任統治 Assign under a mandate; "mandate a colony"
Mandate (v.) Make mandatory; "the new director of the school board mandated regular tests".
Mandate (v.) Assign authority to.
Mandator (n.) A director; one who gives a mandate or order.
Mandator (n.) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.
Mandatory (n.) Same as Mandatary.
Mandatory (a.) 義務的；強制的；命令的；指令的 Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
Mandatory (a.) Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority.
Mandatory (a.) (Law) Not optional; not able to be modified or disregarded; as, seven mandatory clauses in the contract.
Mandatory (a.) Required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" [syn: compulsory, mandatory, required].
Mandatory (n.) 受託者；代理者 The recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory].
Mandatory (n.) A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves [syn: mandate, mandatory].
Mandatory (a.) (Formal) 強制的；必須履行的；法定的 Something that is mandatory must be done, or is demanded by law.
// The minister is calling for mandatory prison sentences for people who assault police officers.
// Athletes must undergo a mandatory drugs test before competing in the championship.
// In 1991, the British government made it mandatory to wear rear seat belts in cars.
Mandelate (n.) A salt of mandelic acid.
Mandelic acid (n.) [Chemistry] [Pharmacology] 扁桃酸 An antibacterial agent given orally in the treatment of urinary tract infections; 2-hydroxy-2-phenylacetic acid, C₆ H₅ CH(OH)COOH.
Compare: Pharmacology
Pharmacology (n.) 藥理學 The branch of medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs.
‘The main thrust of the book is to describe the toxicology and pharmacology of herbal products.’
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.
Mandrel (n.) (Mach.) 【機】車床心軸；【冶】心軸 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.) (Mach.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley. [Written also manderil and mandril.]
Mandrel lathe, A lathe with a stout spindle, adapted esp. for chucking, as for forming hollow articles by turning or spinning.
Mandril (n.) Any of various shafts that rotate or serve as axes for larger rotating parts. [Written also manderil and mandrel.]
Syn: spindle, mandrel, arbor.
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.) (Chem.) Manganous.
Manganic (a.) (Chem.) 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.) (Min.) 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.) (Chem.) A compound of manganese dioxide with a metallic oxide; so called as though derived from the hypothetical manganous acid.
Manganite (n.) A black mineral consisting of basic manganese oxide; a source of manganese.
Manganium (n.) [NL.] Manganese.
Manganous (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, designating, those compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with manganic compounds; as, manganous oxide.
Manganous acid, A hypothetical compound analogous to sulphurous acid, and forming the so-called manganites.