mandil

[O. Fr. mandil, mandille, from Lat. mantellum, mantelum a table-cloth, a cloak, a mantle.] A sort of cloak or mantle. măn-dil-ion (ias y), s. [O. Fr. mandil; Ital. mandiglione.] A kind of loose garment; a soldier's cloak. "A mandilion , that did with buttons meet, Of purple, large, and full of folds, curl'd with a warmful nap." -Chapman : Homer's Iliad , x. măn-đi-ốc, măn-1-oc, s. [From mandioca, its name in Brazil.] Bot.: A euphorbiaceous plant, Manihot utilis sima. [CASSAVA, MANIHOт.] mandioc-plant, s. [MANDIOC.] *mand-ment, s. [MAN DEMENT.]