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A sleeve. [Obs.]

Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic] Bacon. Tennyson.

A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.

Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge upper edge to the sides.

justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

own with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country. That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill- built market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.

d their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar. Cavendish.

See Manche.

See Comanches.

. We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that is, the established merchandize, of Manchester. Trench.

tuff obtained from certain basic azo compounds of benzene; -- called also Bismarck brown, Manchester brown, etc.

One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. [Eng.] Warehouseman's itch (Med.), a form of eczema occurring on the back of the hands of warehousemen.

A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.