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A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. [The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. Bacon. The green mantle of the standing pool. Shak. Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. Burns.

Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. -- May beetle, May bug (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear…

rapt in the rude manger lies. Milton. Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey Prior. We can not bear to have others think meanly of them [our kindred]. I. Watts.

A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.

Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab.

Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.

Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

hange; to put on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

Of or pertaining to a microbe.

Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

The study of minute organisms, or microbes, as the bacteria. -- Mi`cro*bi`o*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Mi`cro*bi*ol"o*gist (#), n.

To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.

See Nitrobenzene.

ughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers.

The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. [R.] A. Drummond. Le beau monde Etym: [F.], fashionable society. See Beau monde. -- Demi monde. See Demimonde.

An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law. Shipley.

ligious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted,…

A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe.

Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf. Lindley.