Mān'çi-ple, n.

n. [O. Fr. mancipe, with l inserted, as in participle, from participe: Lat. mancipium, from manceps, O. It. mancipio. See supra.] A steward; an undertaker; a purveyor, particularly of a college.

Better it were that you tarry for the mare of our mancipie at the Grange. W. Scott.