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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

,

Definition 2024

Mantle

Mantle

See also: mantle and mantel

English

Proper noun

Mantle

  1. A surname​.

mantle

mantle

See also: mantel and Mantle

English

Noun

mantle ‎(plural mantles)

  1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) [from 9th c.]
  2. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
    At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
    The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
  4. (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. [from 15th c.]
    • 1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71 (where there is an illustration):
      Before copulation in Loligo, the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle. He then reaches into his mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his ****.
  5. (zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
  7. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
  8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)
  9. A penstock for a water wheel.
  10. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
  11. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
  12. A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel
  13. (heraldry) A mantling.

Derived terms

Translations

zoology: body wall of a mollusc

Verb

mantle ‎(third-person singular simple present mantles, present participle mantling, simple past and past participle mantled)

  1. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  2. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
  3. (of face, cheeks) To flush.

Anagrams

Etymology

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel ‎(“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-Germanic *mantilaz ‎(“mantle”); later reborrowed from Anglo-Norman mantel, from Latin mantēllum ‎(“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum, probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos ‎(“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- ‎(“tread, press together; crumble”). Old Norse also borrowed this word from Latin as mǫttull.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmantl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmæn.təl/
  • Rhymes: -æntəl
  • Homophone: mantel

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