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attle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet. [Written also mangold-wurzel.]

A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

In a mangy manner; scabbily.

The condition or quality of being mangy.

a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.

The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

See Mangel-wurzel.

A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage. [Obs.]

One who mangonizes. (Zoöl.)

To furbish up for sale; to set off to advantage. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.

A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet atta…

The kusimanse.

Infected with the mange; scabby.

See Menhaden.

To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon.

Manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

s in apparatus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron. So called from Pierre Manhès, a French metallurgist, who invented it.