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Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.

The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.

Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.

Having white, delicate hands.

A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; -- so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology.

The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.

The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies. Dr. Prior.

Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland. The Lowlands, Belgium and Holland; the Netherlands; also, the southern part of Scotland.

A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.

The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula. Dryden. After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne.

Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.

A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders. [Written also mallenders.]

A demand. [Obs.] See Demand.

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.

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.