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Portmantle :: Portmantle (n.) A portmanteau.

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

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ivy-mantled :: Ivy-mantled (a.) Covered with ivy.

Tabard :: Tabard (n.) A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds..

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..

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

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

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

Tectibranchiate :: Tectibranchiate (a.) Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata.

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

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

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..

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