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manioc is the Indian name of the nutri- 

 tious matter of the Manihot cannabina, 

 Lin., or Jatropha manihot, "Willd., of 

 South America, &c., and from the root of 

 which cassuva and tapioca are procured. 

 The juice of the plant is highly poisonous. 



MAML'LES. Large brass rings, formed 

 like bracelets, exchanged by the Euro- 

 peans with the negroes on the coasts of 

 Africa for slaves. They are worn on the 

 small of the leg, and on the arm above 

 the elbow. 



MAX'IFLE, Lat. manipulug, a handful. 



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MAXIP'CLCS, Lat. manus, hand. In Ro- 

 man antiquities, a subdivision of the co- 

 hort, so called from the handful of grass 

 or straw which formed its standard. 



MA'XIS. The pangolin or tcaly lizard or 

 ant-cater. A genus of mammiferous ani- 

 mals, ranked by Cuvier among the ordi- 

 nary Edentata. They live on anu and 

 termites; their tongue is very extensile, 

 and their body, limbs, and tail, are co- 

 vered with large trenchant scales, ar- 

 ranged like tiles, but which they elevate 

 in rolling themselves into a ball, when 

 they wish to defend themselves from an 

 enemy. They are confined to the eastern 

 continent. 



MAN'ITRVXK. In tntomologf, a term 

 applied to the anterior Moment of the 

 trunk on which the head turns. 



MAX'NA. 1 . A subsUuice with which the 

 children of Israel were fed in the wilder- 

 ness, and which appears to have been a 

 kind of honey-dew. The term is Hebrew 

 mahn, allied to the Arabic wanna, to 

 provide. 2. A peculiar sacchariue mat- 

 ter, which exudes from many plants but 

 especially the concrete juice of a species 

 of ash, the fraxinut omits, which grows 

 in the southern parts of Europe. It has 

 a sweet but not agreeable taste, a slight 

 peculiar odour, and a pale yellow colour. 

 From Sicily and Calabria. 



MAX'XE. In painting, the particular 

 habit of a painter in managing colours, 

 lights and shades. The best painter is 

 he who has no manner. 



MAX-OF-WAR. 1. The albatross (diome- 

 dea exulansj. 2. A ship-of-war. 



MAXOM'ETER, from /*&>(><;, rare, and 

 *, measure. An instrument intend- 

 ed to measure the rarefaction or altera- 

 tions of density of elastic fluids, whether 

 caused by variations of temperature, or 

 mechanical compression, or vice versa. 



MA'XOR, Norm, tnanoir, a habitation. 

 A district of ground held by a lord or 

 nobleman in his own possession, for the 

 direct use of his family ; his other lands 

 being distributed among his tenants. It 

 bas been suggested that the term origin- 

 ally meant the jurisdiction and royalty 

 incorporeal, rather than the land or site. 

 If to, thia meaning is long since forgotten. 



MANSARD KOOF; so named after the 

 nventor. In architecture, the same a 

 curb roof, which see. 



MAX'TELETS. Moveable parapets, made 

 of planks, nailed over one another. u> 

 he height of six feet, and driven before 

 the pioneers as blinds to shelter them. 



MAN'TIS. The Soothsayer. A genus of 

 orthopterous insects placed in thi- family 

 Cursoria by Cuvier. The species inhabit 

 warm climates, and some are held in 



gh veneration in their particular locali- 



BS. Name ftavri;, a prophet, from the 

 position of the arms, which resemble* 

 that of supplication. 



MANTIS'SA. The decimal part of a loga- 

 rithm ; the integral part being named 

 the rharatterittic. 



MAN'TLE. \ A termin architecture, 



MAN'TLE-TREE. ) for the lower part oi 

 the chimney , which sustains the compart- 

 ments of the chimney-piece. 



MAX'TLB. )A term in heraldry for 



MAN'TLINO. j that appearance of fold- 

 ing of cloth, flourishing, or drapery, 

 which in any achievement is drawn 

 about a coat of arms. 



IAN'UFACTVRE, from mantis, the hand, 

 and facio, to make. 1. The operation of 

 reducing raw materials of any kind into 

 a form suitable lor use, either by the 



hands or machinery. 2. Any commodity 



made from the natural produce of a 

 country, as cloths from wool, and cotton 

 and silk goods from cotton and silk, iron 

 from ores, leather from hides, &c. Places 

 where goods are manufactured are called 

 manufactories, (in some cases factories;, 

 and those whose business it is to manu- 

 facture articles, or who employ workmen 

 and machinery for that purpose, are 

 manufacturers. 



MA.vfMis's.ox.from manns, the hand, 

 andiirfo, to send. A solemn ceremony 

 among the Romans, by which a slave 

 was emancipated or liberated from per- 

 sonal bondage. 



MAX'CSCRIPT. Lat. mamueriptum, A 

 book or paper written with the hand 

 (manus and scripturi) as opposed to one 

 printed: contracted MS., and plural MSS. 



MAP. A delineation of the earth's sur- 

 face, or of a portion of it. A map is pro- 

 perly a representation of land, as dis- 

 tinguished from a chart, which represents 

 sea and sea-coasts, position of islands, 

 rocks, &c. 



MARAX A'THA (Syr.). A form of anathe- 

 matising among the Jews, signifying 

 " the Lord will come," i. e. to take 

 vengeance. 



MARAN'TA. A genus of perennial plants. 

 MonandriaMonogynia. The starch call- 

 ed arrow-root is extracted from the roots 

 of the JH. arundinacea, which is cultivated 

 in gardens and piovision ground* of the 

 "West Indies ; and the roots of tiw Jt. 



