I opened it up with a mandril Saturday night and we'll see how it goes tonight at band rehearsal.    From Wordnik.com.  [10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002] Reference

One edge of the netting is fastened to the platform, the other edge is attached to the winding mandril.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

This method consists in rolling a sheet of concrete and wire netting into a solid cylinder on a mandril, by means of a special machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

A rival attraction already occupies the field in the person of a Tabreez Turkish luti with a performing rib-nosed mandril and a drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

Vtti C &c. that is intended to be chucked: they must then be replaced in their respective situations in the largest chuck, and screwed on Ae end of the mandril 6 of the lathe, as rqresented in fig. 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce] Reference

Now and then, when the crowd with no money to spend becomes too clamorous about the doorway, the luti goes to the assistance of the guards, and giving the mandril the length of his chain, chases the people away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

In contradistinction to the mandril which evinced revenge, the capuchin showed that he was of a forgiving disposition, for, no sooner was he hurt, than he sought consolation from the very person who inflicted the injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference

Not ten minutes after the conversation, while I was in another part of the building, I heard a yell from the keeper, and, on rushing to see what had happened, found that the man's thumb had been almost severed from his hand by the powerful teeth of the mandril.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference

The bicycle, the luti, and the mandril occupy the back part of the large room, where several lamps and farnooses envelop this attractive and drawing combination with a garish and stagy glow, so that they can be seen to advantage by the throngs of eager visitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

The luti sings doubtful love songs to the accompaniment of finger-strumming on the drum, and the mandril now and then condescends to stand on its head, grunt loudly in response to questions, spin round and round like a dancing dervish, and otherwise give proof of his intelligence and accomplishments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

Finding similar features in human beings, and particularly in children, though not developed in the same degree, we may assume that in our monkey-like ancestors facial characters similar to those of the mandril were developed, though to a less extent, and that they were symptomatic of pleasure, because connected with the period of courtship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference

About ten o'clock the khan-jees make me up quite a comfortable shake-down, and tired out with the tough journey over the mountains and the worrying persecutions of the afternoon, I fall asleep while yet the house is doing a thriving trade; the luti singing, the mandril grunting, kalians bubbling, and people talking, all fail to keep me awake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

Bell-mandril #106, purchased in February of 1927 by Leon Bix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artifacts #4] Reference

Again, some years ago my attention was called to a large mandril by the keeper of the monkey house in the St. Louis Zoölogical Garden, who remarked that "That monkey will do me up some day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference

You black-faced mandril, you grinning baboon -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Toward the Gulf] Reference