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A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
(zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
* 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):
(zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
A penstock for a water wheel.
(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
A fireplace shelf;
(heraldry) A mantling.
To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
To become covered or concealed.
(of face, cheeks) To flush.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a proper noun mantle
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.mantle
English
(wikipedia mantle)Noun
(en noun)- At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
- The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
- the green mantle of the standing pool
- Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.
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Derived terms
* assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantleVerb
(mantl)- (Shakespeare)
- The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
