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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAN'TLE, n. [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, v.t. To cloke; to cover; to disguise.
So the rising senses
Begin to chase th'ignorant fumes, that mantle
Their clearer reason.
MAN'TLE, v.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.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"
2: United States baseball player (1931-1997) [syn: Mantle, Mickey Mantle, Mickey Charles Mantle]
3: the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
4: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn: blanket, mantle]
5: (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell [syn: mantle, pallium]
6: shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece" [syn: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece]
7: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall]
8: a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter [syn: cape, mantle] v
1: spread over a surface, like a mantle
2: cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building"

Merriam Webster's

biographical name Mickey (Charles) 1931-1995 American baseball player

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English mantel, from Anglo-French, from Latin mantellum Date: 13th century 1. a. a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes ; cloak b. a figurative cloak symbolizing preeminence or authority <accepted the mantle of leadership> 2. a. something that covers, enfolds, or envelops b. (1) a fold or lobe or pair of lobes of the body wall of a mollusk or brachiopod that in shell-bearing forms lines the shell and bears shell-secreting glands (2) the soft external body wall that lines the test or shell of a tunicate or barnacle c. the outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth; broadly an insulated support or casing in which something is heated 3. the upper back of a bird 4. a lacy hood or sheath of some refractory material that gives light by incandescence when placed over a flame 5. a. regolith b. the part of the interior of a terrestrial planet and especially the earth that lies beneath the crust and above the central core 6. mantel II. verb (mantled; mantling) Date: 13th century transitive verb to cover with or as if with a mantle ; cloak <the encroaching jungle growth that mantled the building — Sanka Knox> intransitive verb 1. to become covered with a coating 2. to spread over a surface 3. blush <her rich face mantling with emotion — Benjamin Disraeli>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a loose sleeveless cloak, esp. of a woman. 2 a covering (a mantle of snow). 3 a spiritual influence or authority (see 2 Kings
2:13). 4 a fragile lacelike tube fixed round a gas-jet to give an incandescent light. 5 an outer fold of skin enclosing a mollusc's viscera. 6 a bird's back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, esp. if of a distinctive colour. 7 the region between the crust and the core of the earth. --v. 1 tr. clothe in or as if in a mantle; cover, conceal, envelop. 2 intr. a (of the blood) suffuse the cheeks. b (of the face) glow with a blush. 3 intr. (of a liquid) become covered with a coating or scum. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L mantellum cloak

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mantel Man"tel, n. [The same word as mantle a garment; cf. F. manteau de chemin['e]e. See Mantle.] (Arch.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. [Written also mantle.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mantle Man"tle, n. [OE. mantel, OF. mantel, F. manteau, fr. L. mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela cloth. See Manual, Textile, and cf. Mandil, Mantel, Mantilla.] 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. --Bacon. The green mantle of the standing pool. --Shak. Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. --Burns. 2. (Her.) Same as Mantling. 3. (Zo["o]l.) (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. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus. (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. --Raymond. 6. (Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mantle Man"tle, v. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mantle Man"tle, 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. --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. --Shak. Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mantles) 1. If you take on the mantle of something such as a profession or an important job, you take on the responsibilities and duties which must be fulfilled by anyone who has this profession or job. (WRITTEN) Glasgow has broadened its appeal since taking on the mantle of European City of Culture in 1990... N-SING: the N of n 2. A mantle of something is a layer of it covering a surface, for example a layer of snow on the ground. (WRITTEN) The parks and squares looked grim under a mantle of soot and ash. = blanket N-COUNT: with supp 3. see also mantel

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) Heb. 'addereth, a large over-garment. This word is used of Elijah's mantle (1 Kings 19:13, 19; 2 Kings 2:8, 13, etc.), which was probably a sheepskin. It appears to have been his only garment, a strip of skin or leather binding it to his loins. _'Addereth_ twice occurs with the epithet "hairy" (Gen. 25:25; Zech. 13:4, R.V.). It is the word denoting the "goodly Babylonish garment" which Achan coveted (Josh. 7:21).

(2.) Heb. me'il, frequently applied to the "robe of the ephod" (Ex. 28:4, 31; Lev. 8:7), which was a splendid under tunic wholly of blue, reaching to below the knees. It was woven without seam, and was put on by being drawn over the head. It was worn not only by priests but by kings (1 Sam. 24:4), prophets (15:27), and rich men (Job 1:20; 2:12). This was the "little coat" which Samuel's mother brought to him from year to year to Shiloh (1 Sam. 2:19), a miniature of the official priestly robe.

(3.) Semikah, "a rug," the garment which Jael threw as a covering over Sisera (Judg. 4:18). The Hebrew word occurs nowhere else in Scripture.

(4.) Maataphoth, plural, only in Isa. 3:22, denoting a large exterior tunic worn by females. (See DRESS.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

man'-t'-l: Used 5 times of Elijah's mantle ('addereth, 1Ki 19:18,19; 2Ki 2:8,13,14), which was probably of hair. Found in plural once (Isa 3:22), where it (ma`ataphoth) is an upper wide tunic with sleeves (kethoneth).

See DRESS; KERCHIEF.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Cloak. 2. Cover, covering. 3. Mantel-piece, mantel-shelf. 4. Pallium. II. v. a. Cloak, overspread, cover, disguise, obscure. III. v. n. 1. Expand, spread, be expanded. 2. Effervesce, bubble, foam, sparkle, froth, cream.

Moby Thesaurus

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