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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



... discovered that the large wagonette and the pony-carriage could accommodate the whole party, and accordingly, soon after eleven o'clock, they started in the highest possible spirits—even Miss Nelson casting away her mantle of care for the time, and Mr. Wilton, who had now thoroughly entered into the spirit of the fun, enjoying himself as much as the ...
— The Children of Wilton Chase • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... her. In their thoughts they approached nearer and nearer to her, to the inner truth of her. The street and the town of Willow Springs were covered with a mantle of silence. Was it the silence of death? Had her mother died? Did her mother sit there now a dead thing in the ...
— Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories • Sherwood Anderson
... darkness her splendour and brightness cover, Like clouds above the glory of purple mountain peaks; She sits with her proud head bowed, and a mantle of blackness over— She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are ...
— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean
... white, with a black cap on the head, a pearl-blue mantle, and silver-black shades on the long wing-feathers, which look as if they had hoar frost ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... have kept his word better. But he is my father, and I must not judge him too hardly. I will now go down to the evening meal." So saying, he sprang up and threw on his furred mantle. ...
— Sintram and His Companions • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque


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