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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..

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

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

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

Tunicin :: Tunicin (n.) Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) Same as Mantling.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Ream :: Ream (v. i.) To cream; to mantle.

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..

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..

Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..

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..

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