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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..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Dismantled :: Dismantled (imp. & p. p.) of Dismantl.

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

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc..

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

Mantlet :: Mantlet (n.) See Mantelet.

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

Tunic :: Tunic (n.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a)..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A mantel. See Mantel.

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..

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

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