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Padelion :: Padelion (n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

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

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

Siphonata :: Siphonata (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug..

Inferobranchiate :: Inferobranchiate (a.) Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata..

Unmantle :: Unmantle (v. t.) To divest of a mantle; to uncover.

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

Disgarnish :: Disgarnish (v. t.) To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.

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..

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

Ivy-mantled :: Ivy-mantled (a.) Covered with ivy.

Manteau :: Manteau (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle.

Mollusca :: Mollusca (n. pl.) One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or m

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

Chlamydate :: Chlamydate (a.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus..

Pellibranchiata :: Pellibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata..

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..

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

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