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- English Word Mandore Definition A kind of four-stringed lute.
- English Word Mandragora Definition A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.
- English Word Mandragorite Definition One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.
- English Word Mandrake Definition A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region.
- English Word Mandrake Definition The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum.
- English Word Mandrel Definition A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.
- English Word Mandrel Definition The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.
- English Word Mandrill Definition a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.
- English Word Manducable Definition Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten.
- English Word Manducate Definition To masticate; to chew; to eat.
- English Word Manducated Definition of Manducate
- English Word Manducating Definition of Manducate
- English Word Manducation Definition The act of chewing.
- English Word Manducatory Definition Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- English Word Manductor Definition A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music.
- English Word Manducus Definition A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.
- English Word Mane Definition The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.
- English Word Maned Definition Having a mane.
- English Word Manege Definition Art of horsemanship, or of training horses.
- English Word Manege Definition A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses.