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the first, but smaller than either, and held 

 in the left hand. 



MAN'DORE. A sort of lute, usually with 

 four strings. 



MAN'DRAKE. A plant, the Atropa Mnn- 

 dragora, the root of which is said to bear 

 a resemblance to the human form. The 

 fruit is a globose berry, called by the an- 

 cients the apple of love, and they named 

 Venus after it, JUandragoritis. It had 

 numerous absurd properties ascribed to it. 



MAN'DREL. An instrument for confining 

 in a lathe the article to be turned. There 

 are flat mandrels for turning flat boards 

 on ; pin mandrels which have a long shank 

 to fit into a round hole made in the work 

 to be turned; hollow mandrels which are 

 hollow of themselves, iid are used for 

 turning hollow work ; screw mandrels for 

 turning screws, &c. 



MAN'DRILL. TheSimtVi maimon and mor- 

 mon, Lin. The mandrills, of all the mon- 

 keys, have the longest muzzle (30) ; their 

 tail is very short, and they are brutal and 

 ferocious. It is difficult to imagine .a more 

 hideous or extraordinary animal than the 

 mandrill of Guinea. It attains to the si/e 

 of a man, and is the terror of the negroes. 



MANE'OE. A school for teaching horse- 

 manship and for training horses. The 

 term is from the French manage, Italian 

 mancggio, according to some 4 ma mi 

 agenda, acting with the hand 



MAXOANE'SE, I A grayish white metal, 



MANOANE'SIVM. j very hard and brittle, 

 and of a fine grained fracture, with con- 

 siderable lustre. Hy exposure to the air 

 it speedily oxidises and falls into powder. 

 Sp. gr. 8, melting point 160 Wedgewood. 

 It is susceptible of five degrees of oxygen- 

 ation. The protoxide, is a pale green pow- 

 der, prepared artificially ; the deutoxide 

 exists native in the mineral called brau- 

 nite, and as a hydrate in manganite ; the 

 peroxide exists abundantly in nature. As 

 a hydrate it constitutes black icadii. The 

 other combinations of the metal with oxy- 

 gen are the manganesic and jiermunyanetic 

 acids. The ores of manganese are com- 

 mon in Devonshire, Somersetshire, Der- 

 byshire, <&c. The black oxide is the mng- 

 nesin nigra of the ancients. Epithet 

 manganesian. 



MAXOANES'IC ACID. The manganic acid 

 of Maetscherlich. An acid consisting of 

 three equivalents of oxygen to one of 

 manganese, and therefore isomorphons 

 with sulphuric and selenic acid. It forms 

 green coloured salts, but has not yet been 

 insulated from its bases. The permanga- 

 nesicacid forms red-coloured salts. The 

 change of the manganesic acid into the 

 permanganesic,is the cause of the change 

 of colour from green to red of solutions 

 of chameleon mineral, 



MAN'GEL WUR'ZEL. Field beet. A variety 

 of beet, between the red and white, much 



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ultivated on the continent, partly as food 

 or cattle, and partly to be ue<l in lir-i- 

 ation, and in the exti action of suitni. ,\ 

 las as yet been only partially cultivates 

 n Britain. 



MAX'GER. 1. In a ship of tear, a sm;ill 

 pace extending athwart the deck, immr- 

 diately within the hawse-holes, and sepa- 

 rated on the after-part from the other 

 >art of the deck by the manger-board, :v 

 trong bulk-head built as high, and serv- 

 ing to stop the water which sometimes 

 rushes in at the hawse-holes, and would 



nherwise run aft on the deck. >. The 



trough which holds the corn or other 

 short food given to live stock, especially 

 lorses. 



MAX'QLE. A valuable domestic machine, 

 employed for the purpose of smoothing 

 such linen as cannot be conveniently 

 roned. It is simply a calender upon a 

 small scale. 



MAN'OO. The fruit of the mangifero in- 



rn or mango-tree, cultivated all over 

 Asia. Mangoes, when ri\w, are juicy, of a 

 good flavour, and so frastrant as to per- 

 fume the air to a considerable distance. 

 When unripe they are pickled in the 

 soured milk of the cocoa-nut, with salt, 

 capsicum, and garlick. From the ex- 

 pressed juice of the ripe mango is pre- 

 pared a sort of wine, and the remainder 

 of the kernel can be reduced to a fine 

 >read-tiour. 



MAN 'GO-FISH (of the Ganges). The poly- 

 \emtis paradiseus, so named because it 

 comes in season about the same time 

 with the mangoes. It rarely exceeds fif- 

 teen inches in length, and in point of de- 

 icacy and flavour excels every other fish. 



MANOOSTKE'N. A tree, the Garcinia man- 

 gottana, of the East Indies. It produces 

 i highly valued fruit, about the size of a 

 small orange. 



MiN'oocsTE. A carnivorous animal, of 

 which there are several species, or rather 

 varieties. The most celebrated is the 

 m<iMi>oii>r of Egypt, or ichneumon of the 

 untients. 



MAX'GKOVB. In botany, see RHIZOPHORA. 



MAN (CUKE'S. A sect of Christian here- 

 tics of the third century, the followers of 

 Manes, who taught that there are two co- 

 eternal and independent principles, one 

 of good and one of evil. 



MAN'IFEST. An inventory of the whole 

 cargo of a merchant-ship. 



MANIFESTO. A public declaration made 

 by a prince orsovereign, of his intentions, 

 opinions, or motives, as a manifesto, de- 

 claring the necessity of a war, the rea- 

 sons for its being undertaken, and the 

 motives by which he is induced to it. 



MAX'IHOT, \\ genus of permanent 



MAN'IOC. J plants. Monoeeia Mona- 

 delphia. Don enumerates nine specie*, 

 all natives of hot climates. The wofd 

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