Definition of mantle

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

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Doubling :: Doubling (n.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
Pall :: Pall (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
Pellibranchiata :: Pellibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill..
Outmantle :: Outmantle (v. t.) To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress..
Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool..
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..
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth..
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
Achlamydate :: Achlamydate (a.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.
Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks..
Mantua :: Mantua (n.) A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown..
Straight :: Stragulum (n.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird..
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc..
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
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
Unmantle :: Unmantle (v. t.) To divest of a mantle; to uncover.
Mantlet :: Mantlet (n.) See Mantelet.
Pallium :: Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bird.
Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak..
Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like..
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