maniglion (as manilyon)

[Ital. maniglio =a handle; dim in. from Latin manus = a hand.] MANILIO.] Ordn.: One of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance, cast after the German form. ( Bailey .) măn-1-hot, măn-i-hoc, subst . [The Brazilian name of the plant.] Botany : 1. A genus of Euphorbiacese, tribe Crotonese. Manihot utili ima , the Jatropha manihot of Linnæus, the manioc or mandioc, is a shrub about three feet high, extensively cultivated over the tropics. The root, weighing about thirty pounds, is full of deleterious juice, but being rasped, bruised, washed, and heated on iron plates, the poison is expelled, the harmle residue constituting Ca ava (q.v.). The powder which floats off in the water when it is washed is a pure starch, and, when it settles down, becomes Tapioca. Arnotto was formerly regarded as an antidote to the poison of the manioc. 2. Hibiscus manihot .