manginess, maungynesse

[English mangy; -ne .) The quality or state of being mangy; the state of being infected with the mange. măn'-gle (1), v . t . [A weakened form of man kelen, a freq. from Mid. Eng. manken = to maim, from A. S. be - mancian =to mutilate, from Lat. man cus =maimed, mutilated.] 1. Lit .: To maim, to mutilate; to cut with repeated blows so as to leave a ragged or jagged wound; to hack, to lacerate; to disfigure by cutting or hacking. "Had thy mangled bleeding corse been found, Thy relics had reposed in Trojan ground." Pitt: Virgil's Æneid, vi. 2. Fig .: To destroy the symmetry or completene of; to mutilate; to spoil or mar by bungling, ignorance, or mismanagement. "The organ part was thoroughly mangled. "- Athen. œum, Feb. 25, 1882. măn-gle (2), v . t . [Dut. mangelen = to roll with a rolling-pin; mangel - stok =a rolling-pin; Ital. man gano; a modification of Low Latin manganum, manganus = a mangonel (q. v.), from Gr. mangganon. To roll or smoot he clothes with a mangle; to calender. "Might have got up my linen as I came along-ha! ha! -not a bad idea that-queer thing to have it mangled when it's on one."- Dickens : Pickwick , ch. xv. măn-gle, s . [MANGLE (2), v.] A machine in which damp clothes are smoothed by roller pre ure. The old-fashioned mangle had a box weighted with stones and reciprocating upon rollers which ran to and fro upon the clothes, spread upon a polished table beneath. The improved mangle for smoothing and stretching woven goods previous to starching and calendering, has a number of rollers fixed in a strong frame, and capable of being forced together by levers or screws. In some mangles, the bottom rollers have grooves diverging from the center, so as to spread the cloth outwardly toward each edge as it pa es through, removing the creases. "Regular mangle-Baker's patent-not a crease in my coat." Dickens: Pickwick , ch. xv. mangle-rack, s. Mach .: A rack having teeth or opposite sides en. gaged by a pinion, which meshes with the opposite sides alternately. Thus the continuous rotary motion of the pinion is converted into a reciprocating motion.