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

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

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

Portmantle :: Portmantle (n.) A portmanteau.

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..

Mantlet :: Mantlet (n.) See Mantelet.

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

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

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

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 (v. i.) To spread out; -- said of wings.

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

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

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

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

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

Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak..

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

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

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