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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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Pall :: Pall (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

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

Purple :: Purple (n.) Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple..

Cream :: Cream (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle..

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

Chrisom :: Chrisom (n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened..

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..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

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

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

Unmantle :: Unmantle (v. t.) To divest of a mantle; to uncover.

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed

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

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