Word Meanings - OUTMANTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress. And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper.

Related words: (words related to OUTMANTLE)

• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• PROSECUTRIX
  A female prosecutor.
• PROSENCEPHALON
  The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain. The cerebrum. Huxley.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• GRACE
  The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. And if by grace, then is it no more of
• MANTLE
  See WINGS (more info) mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments;
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• SPLENDOR
  1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy;
• PROSELYTISM
  1. The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party. They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree. Burke. 2. Conversion to a religion,
• PROSECUTABLE
  Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.
• GRACELESS
  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton. 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.
• PROSENCHYMA
  A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.
• PROSEMAN
  A writer of prose.
• OUTMANTLE
  To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress. And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• PROSELYTE
  A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye compass sea and land to make
• PRIDE
  A small European lamprey ; -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• CHYLOPOETIC
  Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• NON PROSEQUITUR
  A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• RENVERSEMENT
  A reversing.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• TRAVERSE
  Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.