n. [ OE. auntelere, OF. antoillier, andoiller, endouiller, fr. F. andouiller, fr. an assumed LL. antocularis, fr. L. ante before + oculus eye. See Ocular. ] (Zool.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. [ 1913 Webster ]

Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The branch next to the head is called the brow antler, and the branch next above, the bez antler, or bay antler. The main stem is the beam, and the branches are often called tynes. Antlers are deciduous bony (not horny) growths, and are covered with a periosteum while growing. See Velvet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antler moth (Zool.), a destructive European moth (Cerapteryx graminis), which devastates grass lands. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. Having no want; abundant; fruitful. [ 1913 Webster ]