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Cordon :: Cordon (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Immantle :: Immantle (v. t.) See Emmantle.

Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To disable; to render useless.

Chasuble :: Chasuble (n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle..

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

Pellibranchiata :: Pellibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus..

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

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..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively..

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

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

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

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