mandrel (mandrel)

t. [ cut under baboon. IMG:content-0176.jpg:[blocks in formation] manducate (man'dū-kāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. manducated, ppr. manducating. [ It. manducare = Sp. Pg. manducar, chew, = F. manger, > E. mange, eat), chew, masticate, eat by chewing, a lengthened form of mandere, chew: see mandible, mange, etc.] To masticate; chew. It is gravel in the teeth, and a man must drink the blood of his own gums when he manducates such unwholesome, such unpleasant fruit. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 719. manducation (man-du-kā'shon), n. [F. man ducat i on = Sp. manducacion, After the manducation of the paschal lamb, it was the custom of the nation to sit down to a second supper. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 290. The sum, then, of Archbishop Cranmer's doctrine on this head is: 1. That John vi. is not to be interpreted of oral manducation in the sacrament. Water land , Works, VII. 141. manducatory (man'dū-kā-to-ri), a. [ dibulate form for eating.