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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Palliobranchiate :: Palliobranchiate (a.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods..

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

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

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..

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

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

Inferobranchiata :: Inferobranchiata (n. pl.) A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle..

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

Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks..

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

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