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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.

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."

To spread out; said of wings. "The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows."

To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool. "Though mantled in her cheek the blood."

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."

adjective

mantled adj. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.

Synonyms: cloaked, clothed, draped, wrapped.

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Etymology of 'Mantled'

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"Mantled" Quotes from Famous Books

... dared to tamper with his faith, for he knew his stern integrity. Pelistes had brought with him to the camp his only son, who had never drawn a sword except in tourney. When the young man saw that the veterans held their peace, the blood mantled in his cheek, and, overcoming his modesty, he broke forth with a generous warmth: 'I know not, cavaliers,' said he, 'what is passing in your minds, but I believe this pilgrim to be an envoy from the devil; for none ...

— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 - Volume 23, Number 5 • Various

... burning on the hearth; but the feeling of the place revealed at once the necessity for it; and I scarcely needed to be informed that the room, which was upon the ground floor, and looked out upon a little solitary grass-grown and ivy-mantled court, had not been used for years, and therefore required to be thus prepared for an inmate. My bedroom was a few paces down ...

— The Portent & Other Stories • George MacDonald

... and above, Dolores's amazed eyes lighted upon gems of the painter's art such as few collections might boast. The entire ceiling was covered with a colossal "Battle of the Amazons," by Rubens, each figure thrown out in startling distinctness, full of voluptuous life and action; the walls were mantled by vast golden frames holding the best of Titian, Correggio and Giorgione, Raphael and Ribera. And jewels flashed everywhere; cunningly placed lamps, themselves encrusted with the reddest of rubies, the subtlest of green emeralds, flooded walls and furnishings with a soft yet searching light which ...

— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle

... transient frown soon came to overshade Sir Thomas's ruddy content as he descried the deep flush (an old weakness) which mantled the young cheeks under ...

— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle

... pride and hope that mantled the cheek of poor Dobbs might have melted a harder heart than Gashwiler's. But the senatorial toga had invested Mr. Gashwiler with a more than Roman stoicism towards the feelings of others, and he only fell back in his chair in the pose of conscious rectitude as ...

— The Story of a Mine • Bret Harte

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