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See Mancus.

A sleeve. [Obs.]

Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic] Bacon. Tennyson.

A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple. Bastard manchineel, a tree (Cameraria latifolia) of the East Indies, having similar poisonous properties. Lindley.

Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants. -- n.

To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Slavery; involuntary servitude. [Obs.] Johnson.

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

. See Sassy bark.

d 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. [Obs.] See Demand.

cted 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.

The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China. S. W. Williams.

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. Tomlinson.

A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins. F. Lieder.

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.

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.

A director; one who gives a mandate or order. Ayliffe.