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Mantle   /mˈæntəl/   Listen
noun
mantle  n.  
1.
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." "The green mantle of the standing pool." "Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree."
2.
(Her.) Same as Mantling.
3.
(Zool.)
(a)
The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills.
(b)
Any free, outer membrane.
(c)
The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
4.
(Arch.) A mantel. See Mantel.
5.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
6.
(Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel.
7.
(Geol.) The highly viscous shell of hot semisolid rock, about 1800 miles thick, lying under the crust of the Earth and above the core. Also, by analogy, a similar shell on any other planet.


verb
Mantle  v. t.  (past & past part. mantled; pres. part. mantling)  To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.


Mantle  v. i.  
1.
To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; said of hawks. Also used figuratively. "Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch." "Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew." "My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease."
2.
To spread out; said of wings. "The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows."
3.
To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool. "Though mantled in her cheek the blood."
4.
To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc. "There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond." "Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm."





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"Mantle" Quotes from Famous Books



... younger, "shall wear my usual skirt; but then, to make amends for that I will put on my gold-flowered mantle, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world." They sent for the best hairdressers they could get to make up their hair in fashionable style, and bought patches for their cheeks. Cinderella ...
— The Tales of Mother Goose - As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 • Charles Perrault
... behold A mist new-risen on the sandy plain. A company, with whom I may not sort, Approaches. I commend my TREASURE to thee, Wherein I yet survive; my sole request." This said he turn'd, and seem'd as one of those, Who o'er Verona's champain try their speed For the green mantle, and of them he seem'd, Not he who loses but who ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante
... on the quarter-deck of the ship nearest him; and, from a group of gentlemen who occupied it, one, wearing a plumed hat and a velvet mantle, from beneath which peeped the richly jewelled hilt of his sword, stood forth ...
— The Flamingo Feather • Kirk Munroe
... firmament With living sapphires! Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent Queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... lighter ones dragging along, and then suddenly the door rasped open, jarring the whole room. The cowboy entered, pulling a disheveled figure—that of a priest, a padre, whose mantle had manifestly been disarranged by the rude grasp of his captor. Plain it was that the padre ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey


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