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A kind of loose robe or gown tied with a sash, worn as an outer garment by Japanese men and women.

A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. Riemann.

A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.

The Chinese paper parasol.

ray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese.

rap; a series of raps. The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper. H. Spencer.

upp, Essen, Germany, for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. Called also the Bell-Krupp process.

so given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.

A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

Chinese measure of distance, being a little more that one third of a mile.

A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.

A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite.

The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.

st of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk. Admiral Foote.

tic elements. (a) (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic. (b) (Physics) In respect to terrestrial magnetism, the declination, inclination, and intensity. (c) See under Element. -- Magnetic equator, the line around the equatorial parts…

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

Manganese.

Of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous compounds. Cf. Manganous. Manganic acid, an acid, H2MnO4, formed from manganese, analogous to sulphuric acid.

Containing manganese.

One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.