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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..

Pallium :: Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bird.

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

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..

Tunicated :: Tunicated (a.) Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the Tunicata..

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

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Lady''s Mantle :: Lady's mantle () A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes..

Encumber :: Encumber (v. t.) To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. t.) To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool..

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..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A short cloak or mantle worn by women.

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