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Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

Retirade :: Retirade (n.) A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle..

Mantled :: Mantled (imp. & p. p.) of Mantl.

Tectibranchiate :: Tectibranchiate (a.) Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata.

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed

Emmantle :: Emmantle (v. t.) To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection..

Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak..

Mantlet :: Mantlet (n.) See Mantelet.

Siphonobranchiata :: Siphonobranchiata (n. pl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group..

Tunicin :: Tunicin (n.) Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) Same as Mantling.

Skirt :: Skirt (n.) The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle..

Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A short cloak or mantle worn by women.

Ream :: Ream (v. i.) To cream; to mantle.

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc..

Immantle :: Immantle (v. t.) See Emmantle.

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To spread out; -- said of wings.

Outmantle :: Outmantle (v. t.) To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress..

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