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

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

Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To disable; to render useless.

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

Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks..

Purple :: Purple (n.) Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple..

Cordon :: Cordon (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state..

Pallium :: Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.

Straight :: Stragulum (n.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird..

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

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..

Dolly Varden :: Dolly Varden () A character in Dickens's novel Barnaby Rudge, a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons..

Purl :: Purl (v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle..

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

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..

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

Pallial :: Pallial (a.) Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve..

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..

Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like..

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

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