mandrake 
He salle have maundement to morne or myddaye be roun- 
gene, 
mandator 3606 
In ciril law, the person who employs * he mandibles. Some anatomists suppose that it forms 
ialled a mandatarius or mandatary) e( j| e * e j ffi th > e under mandible of a bird. To what marche thay salle merke, with mangere to len- 
to convey goods gratuitously, or in a gratuitous man dibulary (man-dib'u-la-ri), a. [< mandi- gene. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), L 1587. 
agency. ,., T T Me* (NL. mandibula) +'-ary] Same as man- man dola, mandora (man-do'lji, -ra), n. [It.: 
dibular. see mandolin.] An older and larger variety of 
The mandibulary symphysis is not by suture, but by an the mandolin. Compare pandura. Also man- 
elastic band. Encyc. Brit,, XXII. 189. dore. 
Mandibulata (man-dib-u-la'ta), n. pi. [NL., mandolin, mandoline (man'doj-lin) 
neut. pi. of mandibulatus: see mandibulate.] 
In entom. : (a) In some systems, a primary 
mandatory (man'da-to-ri), a. and n. [< LL. 
mandatorius, of or belonging to a mandator, < 
mandator, one who commands : see mandZ, man- 
date.'] I. a. Of the nature of a mandate ; con- 
taining a command or mandate ; directory. 
[< 
A superiority of power mandatory, judicial, and coercive 
over other ministers. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vii. 3. 
mandoline, < It. mandolino, dim. of mandola, 
mandora, var. forms of pandora, a kind of lute : 
A musical in- 
tary nomination of the bishop to be consecrated. 
Abp. Ussher, Ordination, p. 221. 
Mandatory Injunction. See injunction. Mandatory 
Statute, a statute the effect of which is thati if its provi- 
sions are not complied with according to their terms, the 
thing done is, as to it, void (Bishop): contradistinguished 
from directory statute. 
II. . ; pi. mandatories (-riz). Same as man- 
datary. 
Acting as the mouthpiece, more than the mandatory, of 
Europe. Lowe, Bismarck, II. 92. 
mandatum (man-da'tum), n. [ML. : see man- 
date, maundy.] Same as maundy. 
mandell (man'del), n. Same as mandil 2 . 
mandelstone (man'del-ston), n. [Accom. of G. 
mandelstein (= D. mandelsteen = Dan. Sw. man- 
delsten), almond-stone, < mandel, = E. almond, + 
stein = E. stone.] Same as amygdaloid. 
mandementt (man'de-ment), n. [ME., = F. 
group or division of Insecta, containing those see mandore, bandore*, pandore.] 
-i 1 ii- -J - n^iv,,,intn ,* strument of the lute class, havin u 
six single or double metallic strings, which are 
It doth not appear that he usurped more than a manda- f ^ hoge mout h-parts are mandibulate or strument of the lute class, having from four to 
ry nomination of the bishop to be consecrated. "ST.. 5_ii__r.v.j * *!,, v,ji, O i-r ^ino-ln nr AnnHa metallic strine-s. which are 
masticatory, as distinguished from those which 
have the same parts haustellate or suctorial, 
the former being fitted for biting, the latter 
for sucking: opposed to Saustellata. West- 
wood called the same division Dacnostomata. 
(6) A division of Anoplura, including mandibu- 
late lice, as the bird-lice or Mallophaga. [The 
term was first used in the former sense by Clairville 
(1798), who divided each of his main groups of Insectes 
(Pterophora and Aptera) into Mandibulata and ffaustel- 
lata. In Macleay's celebrated system it was the name of 
one of the five groups of his Anmdosa.] 
mandibulate (man-dib'u-lat), a. and n. [< NL. 
mandibulatus, < mandibtila, mandible : see man- 
dible 1 .] I. a. 1. Inentotn.: (a) Having mandi- 
bles, and thus able to bite, as an insect; of or 
stretched over an almond-shaped body, and a 
neck with numerous frets. It is played with a plec- 
trum of tortoise-shell held in the right hand. The tuning 
of the strings varies somewhat, but the compass is usually 
about three octaves upward from the G next below middle 
C. The tone is tinkling, but penetrating and agreeable. 
pertaining to the Mandibulata : distinguished ^ ^ _____________ =j __ r _______ 
from haustellate or suctorial. (6) Masticatory, mandolinist" (man''d6Tin-ist),"w." [< mandolin 
^nfcmt~=PT.mandamen'=Sp.mandamiento as the jaws of an insect.- 2. Having a lower + _ ist j One who performs on a mandolin. 
= Pg It mandamento, < ML. mandamentum, a jaw as nearly all vertebrates : opposed to eman- mandom (man'dum), n. [< man + -dom.] Hu- 
command,<mn^, command: see mandate.] ^^Mandibuiatemou^ Same as masticatory n.anity in general; men collectively consd- 
A mandate or commandment. re mn iult inect as a beetle. Nay vitimut thls law 
of mandom, ye would perish beast by beast 
Devouring. Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile. 
v'smandement. mandibuliform (man-dib'fl-li-f6rm) a, [< man dora, , See mandola. 
.. o/Brunne, p. 307. NL. mandibula, mandible, + L. forma, form.] man dore (man-dor'), n. [< P. mandore, < It. 
Having the form of a mandible in general: manaora: see mandola..] Same as mandola. 
specifically applied to the under jaws or max- man dorla (man-d6r'la), n. [It.] 1. In deeo- 
illse of an insect when they are hard, horny, and rative art, a space, 
mandibulate or fitted for biting, like the man- opening, panel, or 
dibles proper. 
II. n. A mandibulate insect, as a beetle. 
Ye haue herde the maundement that the Romayns haue mandlbulatcd (man-dib'u-la-ted), a. [< man- 
sent that I-nough haue vscontraried.^ ^ ^ o N m ^ dibulate + -ed^.] Same as mandibulate. 
Merlin ( 
He schewed the erle Rogere the j 
E T S ) iii 641 
' 
mander, v. i. See maunder. 
manderilt (man'der-il), n. An obsolete variant 
of mandrel. 
Mandevilla (rnan-de-vil'a), . [NL. (Lindley, 
1840), named after 'A.S.Xfandeville, British min- 
A genus of American mandibulohyoid (man-dib"u-16-hi'oid), a. [< 
he tribe Echitidece and NL. mandibula, mandible, + hyoid.] Pertain- 
ister at Buenos Ayres.] 
apocynaceous plants of the tribe _ 
the subtribe Euecliitidece. The flowers grow in sim- ing to the lower jaw and the hyoid bone : as, 
pie racemes, and have a funnel-shaped^corolla, a calyx with the mandibulohyoid ligament of a shark. 
mandibulomaxiUary (man-diVu-16-mak'si-la- 
ri), a. [< NL. mandibula, mandible, + maxilla, 
maxilla.] In Crustacea, of or pertaining to the 
mandibles and to the maxillee; situated be- 
tween these parts: as, a mandibulomaxiUary 
which is five-parted or has five scales. They are tall climb- 
ing shrubs, with opposite feather-veined leaves, and sim- 
ple racemes of yellow, white, or rarely violet flowers, which 
are usually large and showy. About 30 species have been 
described, from Mexico, the West Indies, and tropical 
America. M. suaveolenft, known as the ChUi jasmine, is 
remarkable for its very fragrant snowy-white flowers, and 
is common in cultivation. 
the like, of an 
oval shape; also, 
a work of art fill- 
ing such a space, 
as a bas-relief, or 
the like. 2. Ec- 
the vesiea 
apodeme. 
mandiet, n. 
., 
piscis. 
In a fourth relief 
upon the high altar, 
rfirist seated within 
a mandorla blesses 
with his right hand. 
C. C. Perkins, Ital- 
ian Sculpture, 
[Int., p. xx. 
See maundy. 
mandevillet, . [Appar. an erroneous form of mandil 1 } (man'dil). n. [< OF. mandil, man- 
mandill, conformed to the surname Handeville.] dille (?), F. manditle (> Sp. Pg. mandil), < L. 
Same as mandilion. mantile, also mantele, mantelium, a towel, nap- 
mandible 1 (man'di-bl), n. [= F. mandibule = kin, table-cloth, mantelum, mantelium, a man- mandragt, man- 
Sp. mandfbula = It. mandibula, mandibola, < tie: see mantle, mantel.] Same as mandilion. draget, n. Obso- 
NL. mandibula, mandible, < LL. mandibula, f., mandil 2 (man'dil), n. [Also mundil; < Ar. ] e te forms of man- 
also mandibulum, n., a jaw, < L. mandere, chew, Turk, mendil, a kerchief; perhaps ult. < L.: dralce. 
see mandil^-.] Among Moslems, a kind of ker- mandragont, * 
chief, especially one oblong in shape, the short An obsolete vari- 
sides worked with gold or colored silk, the rest 
plain. R. F. Burton, tr. of Arabian Nights, II. 
301, note. 
masticate.] In zool. and anat., a jaw-bone; a 
jaw, or the jaw-bone and associate parts ; espe- 
cially, the under jaw. (a) In man and other mam- 
mals, the under jaw, or inferior maxillary, as distinguished 
from the upper jaw, maxilla, or superior maxillary. (&) 
of either jaw which is covereVwith^iorny^ntegument^the mandiliont (man-dil'ypn), n. [Also maiidillion, 
mandilian; < OF. mandilion, < mandil, a mantle: 
see mandil 1 .] A garment first used in France in 
the sixteenth century, and worn originally by 
men-servants, soldiers, and others as a sort of 
overcoat. Its earliest form appears to have been that 
of a dalmatic with sleeves not closed and covering the 
back of the arm only. In the seventeenth century it was 
an outer garment capable of being buttoned up or left 
open, described in 1660 as like a jump, generally without 
sleeves. 
About him a mandilion, that did with buttons meet, 
Of purple, large, and full of folds, curled with a warmful 
nap, 
A garment that 'gainst cold in night did soldiers use to 
wrap. Chapman, Iliad, x. 134. 
A Spaniard, having a Moore slave, let him goe a long time 
in a poore ragged mandilian without sleeves ; one asking 
two being distinguished as upper and lower. When the 
term mandible is applied to the lower only, the upper is 
called maxilla. See cut under bill, (c) In the arthro- 
pods, especially insects, either half, right or left, of the 
first, upper, or outer pair of jaws, considered by some to 
correspond to the lower jaw of vertebrates ; morphologi- 
cally, one of the first pair of gnathites, always devoid of 
a palp : opposed to maxilla, which is either half of the 
second pair of jaws. See cut under mouth-part, (d) In 
cephalopods, the horny beak or rostrum. See mandibu- 
lar. Dentate mandible. See dentate. - Multidentate 
mandible, in entom., a mandible having many teeth or 
processes on the inner side. 
mandible'-'t (man'di-bl), a. [Prop, mandable; < 
mand s + -able.] Demandable. 
Thus we rambled up and down the Country ; and where 
the people demean'd themselves not civil to us by volun- 
tary contributions, their Geese, Hens, Pigs, or any such 
mandible thing we met with, made us satisfaction for 
their hidebound injuries. 
Richard Bead, English Rogue (1665). 
ant of mandrake. 
Cotgrave. 
mandragora 
(man-drag'o-ra), 
Mandorla. From Assumption of the 
Madonna, by Orcaffna ; Church of Or San 
him why he dealt so sleevelessly with the poore wretch, 
he answered : I crop his wings, for f eare he flie away. 
Copley, Wits, Fits, and Fancies (1614). (Xares.) 
But in time of war they wear crimson mandHions, be- 
hind and before so crossed, over their armour. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 179. 
[< Braz. mandioca.] 
Same as manioc. 
mandibular (man-dib'u-lar), a. [= F. man- 
dibulaire = Sp. mandibular; as mandible* (NL. 
mandibula) + -ar 3 .] Of, pertaining to, or of 
the nature of a mandible Mandibular arch, in mandioc (man'di-ok), n. 
embryol., of vertebrates, the first postoral visceral arch Same as manioc. 
of the embryo; that arch in which Meckel's cartilage is mandlOCa (man-di-6'ka), n. 
developed. - Mandibular ramus. (a) In ornith. , either ~T~ J, i"? ^ . a*", 
fork of the under mandible. (6) In mammal,, the more mandlestone, n. Bee mom 
or less upright proximal part of either half of the man- mandmentt, n. [Early mod. E. mandement, < 
dible, as distinguished from the body or horizontal part ME. maundement, < OF. mandement, command, mandrake (man'drak), ;i. [< ME. mandrake, 
of the same bone.- Mandibular scrobea, in entom < ML mandamentmn, command, < mandare, mandrake, mandrake; an alteration, appar 
grooves on the outer sides of the mandibles, found in most ,o' j t i A ___1 .. 
CaraWdffi.-Mandlbularsegmentorrtng,ii,entoi.,the command: see mantf, mandate.] A command- 
first primary segment behind the mouth-cavity, bearing ment. 
, 
[= F. mandragore = Sp. mandragora = Pg. 
mandragora = It. mandragora, mandragola, < L. 
mandragoras (NL. mandragora), < Gr.uavfpa- 
yopof, the mandrake: see mandrake.] If. The 
mandrake. 
Not poppy, nor mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
Which thou owedst yesterday. 
Shak., Othello, iii. 3. 330. 
Come, violent death, 
Serve for mandragora, to make me sleep. 
Webster, Duchess of Malfl, iv. 2. 
2. [cap.] A genus of plants of the natural order 
Solanacece, the nightshade family, and tribe At- 
ropece. The corolla is induplicate in the bud, the calyx is 
foftaceous and five-parted, and the pedicels are partially 
clustered among the radical leaves. They are herbs, 
nearly stemless, rising from a thick, fleshy, often forked 
root, and bear tufts of large, ovate, lance-shaped leaves, 
and quite large pale bluish- violet, white, or purple flowers, 
which are reticulately veined. Five species have been de- 
scribed (but these may be reducible to one), found through- 
out the Mediterranean region. The ordinary plant has 
been commonly known as M . offimialis. but this includes a 
spring and a fJl kind sometimes separated as species, J/. 
vernalis and M. autumnalis. The mandragora or man- 
drake has long been known in medicine, and has been the 
subject of much superstition. See mandrake. 
simulating ilrakt- 2 , of earlier ME. mandrag, 
nniii/lrage, short for mandragora, q. v. To the 
