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Webster 1913 Edition

Mantle

Man′tle

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Mantled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Mantling
.]
To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
Shak.

Man′tle

,
Verb.
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.
Spenser.
Or tend his sparhawk
mantling
in her mew.
Bp. Hall.
My frail fancy fed with full delight.
Doth bathe in bliss, and
mantleth
most at ease.
Spenser.
2.
To spread out; – said of wings.
The swan, with arched neck
Between her white wings
mantling
proudly, rows.
Milton.
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.
Sir W. Scott.
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.
Shakespeare
Nor bowl of wassail
mantle
warm.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mantle

MAN'TLE

,
Noun.
[Gr. a cloke.]
1.
A kind of cloke or loose garment to be worn over other garments.
The herald and children are clothed with mantles of satin.
2.
A cover.
Well covered with the night's black mantle.
3.
A cover; that which conceals; as the mantle of charity.

MAN'TLE

,
Verb.
T.
To cloke; to cover; to disguise.
So the rising senses
Begin to chase th'ignorant fumes, that mantle
Their clearer reason.

MAN'TLE

,
Verb.
I.
To expand; to spread.
The swan with arched neck
Between her white wings mantling, rows
Her state with oary feet.
1.
To joy; to revel.
My frail fancy, fed with full delights,
Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.
2.
To be expanded; to be spread or extended.
He gave the mantling vine to grow,
A trophy to his love.
3.
To gather over and form a cover; to collect on the surface, as a covering.
There is a sort of men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.
And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.
4.
To rush to the face and cover it with a crimson color.
When mantling blood
Flow'd in his lovely cheeks.
[Fermentation cannot be deduced from mangling, otherwise than as a secondary sense.]

MAN'TLE

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