Search the Dictionary

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.

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

A salt of mandelic acid.

Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.

See Maunder.

A mandrel.

The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.

Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible. -- n.

An insect having mandibles.

Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.

Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillæ of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.

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.