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A demand. [Obs.] See Demand.

cted to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.

It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine. Mandarin duck (Zoöl.), a beautiful Asiatic duck (Dendronessa galericulata), often domesticated, and regarded by the Chinese as an emblem of conjugal affection. -- Mandarin language, the spoken or collo…

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.

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 bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

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.