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

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

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

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

Manteau :: Manteau (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle.

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

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..

Slug :: Slug (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails..

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..

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

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

Portmantle :: Portmantle (n.) A portmanteau.

Mantlet :: Mantlet (n.) See Mantelet.

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A mantel. See Mantel.

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