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mandant 259 manipulateur
mandant, m., person who issues a mandat.
mandat, m., mandate, commission, check; (adm.)
order, request (for transportation, money,
rations, etc.);
d'amenrr, (law) capias;
d'arret, (law) warrant of arrest;
carte, v. postc;
de comparution, (law) summons; subpoena;
-de convoi, (Fr. a.) railroad transportation
order;
lepSche, v. telegramme;
de dfpdt, warrant of commitment;
d'ctapes, (Fr. a. adm.) order for forage and
rations (issued to troops on march) to be drawn
at me etape;
de fournitures, (mil. adm.) requisition;
d'indcmnite de route, (mil. adm. ) order to
pay over travel expenses;
lancer un to issue a , warrant;
de passage, order for transportation by
sea;
de payement, an order to pay;
poste, de posie, post-office money
order;
telegramme, telegrapMque, telegraphic
money order;
de vivres, (Fr. a. a/Zw.)
ration request, is-
sued to and presented by troops on the
march.
mandataire, m., person to whom a mandat is
issued.
mandater, v. a., to deliver an order for the payment
of, deliver an order for.
mandement, m., order, charge.
mander, v. a., to inform, to order.
mandrin, m., mandrel, drift, punch; shaper,
former, shape or form; chuck, plug; coupling;
holding-up tool; top and bottom swage
for rounding bolts; gauge (for hollow or cylindrical
objects); (expl.) fuse-hole gauge (guncotton
disks); (artif.) rocket-case former;
d'abatage, holding-up tool;
b, Vanneau, elastic chuck;
de bourrage, (mil. mirt.) tamping rod;
brise, elastic chuck, cup chuck;
cane , square drift;
ft cftotto, mandrel, etc. (for working metals
hot);
de cochon, sort of screw chuck;
conique, taper mandrel;
& disque, disk chuck;
ercentrique, eccentric chuck;
expansible, shell chuck;
& expansion, expanding mandrel;
faible, (expl.) minimum gauge (must fall of
its own weight through the fuse hole of a guncotton
disk);
tiforet, drill chuck;
de forge, forge mandrel;
fort, (expl.) maximum gauge (must not
of its own weight fall through the fuse hole
of a gun-cotton disk);
& gobelet, bell chuck, cup chuck;
& griffe(s), claw chuck (lathe);
h gueule de loup, split screw chuck;
meplat, flat drift;
ordinaire, plain chuck;
& pointes, flanch or prong chuck;
vorte-foret, drill chuck;
h raises, rifled drift;
rond, round puncheon;
faille, grooved mandrel;
tourd mandrel , lathe;
d'un tour, face plate;
du tour & ovale, & tourncr ovale, oval
chuck;
universel, concentric chuck, universal chuck;
& vis, screw chuck.
mandriner, v. a., to form, shape, work, upon
a mandrel, ec.; to cnuck.
maneage, m., (nav.) manual labor of loading
and unloading cargo, for which no extra manege cavalier de , (cav.) trooper attached
to a riding school;
cheval de , riding-school horse; old, wornout
horse;
& chevaux, horsepower;
civil,
pay
is demended.
manege, m., horsemanship, riding, manege,
riding-school equitation, manege riding; training,
breaking, of horses; riding school, ridingschool
building or inclosure; drill hall; (mach.)
horsepower (i. e., mechanical contrivance),
horse whim;
instruction in riding simply, as distinguished
from military riding;
& colliers, horse mill;
decouvert, ring, outdoor riding school;
de guerre, an uneven gallop, m which the
horse frequently changes the leading foot;
par haut, high school, training of a horse
by the airs releves;
mailre de , riding master.
manette, f., handle, hand gear; hand lever;
spoke of a steering wheel; hook or catch (on
the bolster of the French 0.60m
siege railroad
truck).
manganese, m., manganese.
mangangsifere, a., manganiferous.
mange, p. p., (cord.) galled, worn.
mangeoire, f., manger; crib;
musette v. s. v. musette.
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manger, v. a., to eat, feed, mess; to ^corrode,
eat out or away; to wear, to grind; to absorb,
destroy, eat up; to undermine;
le chemin, to advance, proceed, with great
speed;
ensemble, (mil.) to mess together;
de la guerre, to be present at a combat;
du sable, to cheat the glass;
se , to wear, to be ground d own ;
un pays, to lay waste a country.
maniable, a., manageable, tractable; handy,
pliable, easy to handle, to work.
manlement, m., knack, trick; touch, handling,
management, conduct, use, employment;
des armes, (mil.) manual of arms;
de la lance, (mil.) manual of the lance;
du sabre, (mil.) manual of the sword.
manier, m. K touching, handling, feel; (man.)
action of the feet m the three gaits:
au , to, by, the touch.
manier, v. a. n., to touch, handle, treat; to manage,
administer, use; to substitute new for old
paving stones; (man.) to work (of the horse);
to obey the rider;
les armes, (mil.) to execute the manual of
arms, to handle arms;
& bout, (cons.) to repair a roof;
un cheval, to manage a horse;
difficile h , unmanageable;
de ferme & ferme, (man.) to jump without
advancing;
sur les hanches, (man.) to work uopn the
haunches;
sur place, v. de ferme h ferme;
pres de terre, (man.) to drag the feet
manifesto, m., manifesto; (ship's) manifest.
manigaux, m., bellows lever.
manilla, m., (cord.) manila hemp.
manillage, m., shackling.
manille, f., shackle; m., (cord.) manila rope, manila
hemp;
d'affourche, mooring shackle;
d'ancre, anchor shackle;
d'arret, stop;
d' assemblage, assembling shackle;
d'attelage, (r. r.) screw-coupling loop;
boulon de , shackle bolt;
de brague, breech shackle;
brevetee, patent shackle;
en chanvre, en cordage, hemp rope;
d'etalingure, anchor shackle;
sfausses, preventer gear;
cnfer, wire rope;
s majeures, heavy ropes;
s menues, light ropes;
s principales, v majeures;
s de supplement, spare ropes;
traversiere, fish shackle.
maniller. v. a., to shackle (a chain, etc.).
manipulateur, m., manipulator; (teleg.) key,
telegraph key, sender, transmitter;
automalique, automatic transmitter;
de court circuit, (elec.) short-circuiting
key;