manche2, manch2 (manch)

[Also maunch; sleeves of peculiar fashion. IMG:content-0163.png:[blocks in formation] Fig. 1. Manche as a heraldic bearing. Fig. 2. Sleeve of the time of Henry III., from which the heraldic manche is copied. as a bearing. The sleeve so represented is generally the fourteenth cen- tury sleeve with a long hanging end. Also émanche , man- cher on. A rowle of parchment Clunn about him beares, Charged with the armes of all his ancestors;... This manch , that moone, this martlet, and that mound, Herrick, Upon Clunn. 3. The neck of a violin, guitar, or similar in strument. Manchester brown. See brown. manchet (man'chet), n. and a. [Also mainchet; origin obscure. Cf. cheat -bread.] I. n. 1. A small loaf or roll of the finest white bread; bread made from the finest and whitest wheaten flour. [Obsolete or archaic.] Little pretty thin manchets that shine through, and seem more like to be made of paper, or fine parchment, than of wheat flour. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 179. Of bread made of wheat we have sundrie sorts dailie brought to the table, whereof the first and most excellent is the mainchet, which we common lie call white bread. Holinshed, Descrip. of Enreal. 6. Take cleere water for strong wine, browne breade for fine manchet . Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 118. 2. In her., the representation of a round cake, as of bread, resembling a muffin. II. a. Used in making manchets (said of flour); also, made of the finest flour. [Obso IMG:content-0164.png:[blocks in formation] Sp. manzanillo, manchineel (cf. manzanilla, camomile), found in the West In dies, Central America, and Florida. It abounds in a white, milky, very caustic, poisonous sap, the virulence of which has been exaggerated. It appears to be especially deleterious to the Manchineel (Hippomane Maneyes. Bastard manchi neel, a West Indian apocyna IMG:content-0165.png:[graphic][merged small] ceo us tree, Camera ria latifolia, somewhat resembling the manchineel. - Mountain manchineel. Same as burn wood. See Rhus, sumac, and hog - plum.