Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-MAN'TLE
DIS-MAN'TLE, v.t. [dis and mantle; Fr. demanteler.]
- To deprive of dress; to strip; to divest. – South.
- To loose; to throw open. – Shak.
- More generally, to deprive or strip of apparatus, or furniture; to unrig; as, to dismantle a ship.
- To deprive or strip of military furniture; as, to dismantle a fortress.
- To deprive of outworks or forts; as, to dismantle a town.
- To break down; as, his nose dismantled. – Dryden.
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