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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mantle" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon the heathy hill are lying a' at rest, And the gloamin' spreads its mantle gray o'er the world's dewy breast, I'll take my plaid and hasten through yon woody dell unseen, And meet my bonnie lassie in ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... mantle, fair With goodly work of lustrous vair, Girt fast against her side she bare A sword whose weight bade all men there Quail to behold her face again. Save of a passing perfect knight Not great alone in force and fight It might not be for any might Drawn ...

— The Tale of Balen • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... English one, but with some admixture of Norman fashions. He wore tightly-fitting leg coverings, a garment somewhat resembling a blouse of blue cloth girded in by a belt at the waist, and falling in folds to the knee. Over his shoulders hung a short mantle of orange colour with a hood. On his head was a cap with a wide brim that was turned up closely behind, and projected in a pointed shovel shape in front. In his belt was a small dagger. He wore shoes of light yellow leather fastened by bands over the insteps. ...

— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty

... disturbed his serenity for a moment. He noticed a youthful air about her, a flame in her eyes, a something so alluring that he stopped to look at her. Tall and lovely, her long black gauze dress trailing behind, her shoulders covered by a lace mantle over which a garland of autumn leaves fell from her hat, she passed on, disappeared amid the throng of other women no less stylish than she, in a perfumed atmosphere; and the thought that his eyes were ...

— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

... the morning a messenger from M. le Duc d'Orleans came to remind me of the Regency Council at eight o'clock, and to attend it in my mantle. I dressed myself in black, because I had only that suit with a mantle, and another, a magnificent one in cloth of gold, which I did not wish to wear lest it should cause the remark to be made, though much out of season, that ...

— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon

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