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

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

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..

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

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..

Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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

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

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

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

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..

Siphonobranchiata :: Siphonobranchiata (n. pl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group..

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.

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

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..

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

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth..

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

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

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