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a. Furnished with antlers. [ 1913 Webster ]

The antlered stag. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bez-Antler. ] (Zool.) The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Bez-antler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bis twice (OF. bes) + E. antler. ] The second branch of a stag's horn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cantel, chantel, corner, side, piece, F. chanteau a piece cut from a larger piece, dim. of OF. cant edge, corner. See 1st Cant. ] 1. A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part. “In one cantle of his law.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel. [ Written also cante. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cut in pieces; to cut out from. [ Obs. ] [ Written also cantile. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of cantle. ] A piece; a fragment; a corner. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dismantled p. pr. & vb. n. Dismantling ] [ F. démanteler, OF. desmanteler; pref: des- (L. dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. manteau, cloak. See Mantle. ] 1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To disable; to render useless. Comber.

Syn. -- To demo&unr_;sh; raze. See Demol&unr_;sh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + mantle: cf. F. emmanteler. Cf. Inmantle. ] To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gantlet is corrupted fr. gantlope; gantlope is for gatelope, Sw. gatlopp, orig., a running down a lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to löpa to run. See Gate a way, and Leap. ] A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed. [ 1913 Webster ]

To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands. [ 1913 Webster ]

Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Written also, but less properly, gauntlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A glove. See Gauntlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Emmantle. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with ivy. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European Alchemilla vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mantled p. pr. & vb. n. Mantling ] To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

My frail fancy fed with full delight.
Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spread out; -- said of wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

The swan, with arched neck
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though mantled in her cheek the blood. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mantel, OF. mantel, F. manteau, fr. L. mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela cloth. See Manual, Textile, and cf. Mandil, Mantel, Mantilla. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The ] children are clothed with mantles of satin. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The green mantle of the standing pool. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Same as Mantling. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus. (b) Any free, outer membrane. (c) The back of a bird together with the folded wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) A mantel. See Mantel. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Geol.) The highly viscous shell of hot semisolid rock, about 1800 miles thick, lying under the crust of the Earth and above the core. Also, by analogy, a similar shell on any other planet. [ PJC ]

adj. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
Syn. -- cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel (Citellus lateralis) of western North America, resembling a large chipmunk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A shelf that projects from the wall above a fireplace; a mantel; as, in England they call a mantelpiece a chimneypiece.
Syn. -- mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, chimneypiece. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Mantelet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And with poetic trappings grace thy prose,
Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. panetier. See Panter, Pantry. ] The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without plants; barren of vegetation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A portmanteau. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Dim. of scant, v. ] To be deficient; to fail. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. escanteler, eschanteler, to break into contles; pref. es- (L. ex) + cantel, chantel, corner, side, piece. Confused with E. scant. See Cantle. ] To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All their pay
Must your discretion scantle; keep it back. J. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. eschantelet corner. ] A small pattern; a small quantity. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + mantle. ] To divest of a mantle; to uncover. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nay, she said, but I will unmantle you. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]