Definition of mantle

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Mantle (n.) Any free, outer membrane..

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Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks..
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.
Pall :: Pall (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
Straight :: Stragulum (n.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird..
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) Same as Mantling.
Pallium :: Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.
Manteau :: Manteau (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle.
Inclusa :: Inclusa (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterized by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example..
Mantled :: Mantled (imp. & p. p.) of Mantl.
Ivy-mantled :: Ivy-mantled (a.) Covered with ivy.
Pellibranchiata :: Pellibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill..
Mantlet :: Mantlet (n.) See Mantelet.
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..
Cirrus :: Cirrus (n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri..
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
Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
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..
Ream :: Ream (v. i.) To cream; to mantle.
Chlamydate :: Chlamydate (a.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.
Tectibranchiate :: Tectibranchiate (a.) Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata.
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