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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..

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

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

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..

Achlamydate :: Achlamydate (a.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.

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..

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..

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

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

Mantua :: Mantua (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown..

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

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

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..

Mantling :: Mantling (n.) The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin..

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..

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

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

Cream :: Cream (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to 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..

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