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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..

Tunicated :: Tunicated (a.) Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the Tunicata..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. t.) To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise..

Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship..

Siphonata :: Siphonata (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug..

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

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

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

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

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

Mantlet :: Mantlet (n.) See Mantelet.

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..

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

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

Chasuble :: Chasuble (n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle..

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

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.) Any free, outer membrane..

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..

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

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