Definition of mantle

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Mantle (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.

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Tabard :: Tabard (n.) A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds..
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..
Disgarnish :: Disgarnish (v. t.) To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.
Palliobranchiate :: Palliobranchiate (a.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods..
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..
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..
Achlamydate :: Achlamydate (a.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.
Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To spread out; -- said of wings.
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) Any free, outer membrane..
Tectibranchiata :: Tectibranchiata (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples..
Straight :: Stragulum (n.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird..
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..
Immantle :: Immantle (v. t.) See Emmantle.
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship..
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..
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..
Chlamydate :: Chlamydate (a.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.
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..
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