Vocabulary : Manciple to Mandarinism

Manciple : A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
Mancona bark : See Sassy bark.
Mancus : An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.
Mand : A demand.
Mandamus : A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.

Mandarin : A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam. ;; A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
Mandarinate : The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.
Mandarinic : Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
Mandarining : The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid.
Mandarinism : A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.

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