Word Meanings - UNMANTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To divest of a mantle; to uncover. Nay, she said, but I will unmantle you. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to UNMANTLE)

• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• 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;
• DIVESTURE
  Divestiture.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• UNCOVER
  1. To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body. 2. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. "To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation." Milton. 3. To divest of the
• DIVEST
  See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• MANTLET
  See MANTELET
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• UNMANTLE
  To divest of a mantle; to uncover. Nay, she said, but I will unmantle you. Sir W. Scott.
• DIVESTIBLE
  Capable of being divested.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• PORTMANTLE
  A portmanteau.
• EMMANTLE
  To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. Holland.
• 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.
• IVY-MANTLED
  Covered with ivy.
• DISMANTLE
  dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. 1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest. 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,
• IMMANTLE
  See EMMANTLE
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• LADY'S MANTLE
  A genus of rosaceous herbs , esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.