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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. Chapman.

; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.

See Manioc.

Amygdaloid.

Commandment. [Obs.]

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. And shrieks like mandrak…

e; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley. [Written also manderil.] Mandrel lathe, a lathe with a stout spindle, adapted esp. for chucking, as for forming hollow articles by turning or spinning.

a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, or Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.

Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten. [R.] Any manducable creature. Sir T. Herbert.

To masticate; to chew; to eat. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of chewing. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

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.