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Definition of Mantle

1. Noun. The cloak as a symbol of authority. "Place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"

2. Verb. Spread over a surface, like a mantle.

3. Noun. United States baseball player (1931-1997).

4. Verb. Cover like a mantle. "The ivy mantles the building"

5. Noun. The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.

6. Noun. Anything that covers. "There was a blanket of snow"

7. Noun. (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell.

8. Noun. Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace. "In Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece"

9. Noun. Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window).

10. Noun. A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter.

Definition of Mantle

1. n. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

2. v. t. To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.

3. v. i. To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

Definition of Mantle

1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹

2. Noun. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (defdate from 9th c.) ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else. (defdate from 9th c.) ¹

4. Noun. (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹

5. Noun. The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

6. Noun. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

7. Noun. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust. (defdate from 20th c.) ¹

8. Noun. A fireplace shelf; (alternative spelling of mantel) ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something). ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mantle

1. to cloak [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES] - See also: cloak

Medical Definition of Mantle

1. 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) 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. Same as Mantling. 3. The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. Any free, outer membrane. 4. The back of a bird together with the folded wings. 5. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. 6. A penstock for a water wheel. Origin: 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. (19 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mantle

mantiger mantilla mantillas mantinada mantis mantis crab mantis crabs mantis prawn mantis shrimp mantises

mantispid mantispids mantissa mantissae mantissas mantle (current term) mantle-tree mantle field mantle layer mantle plume

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Literary usage of Mantle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The oxide of lanthanum made a perfect mantle in appearance and produced an intense glow in the colorless flame of a Bunsen burner, but the mantle was found ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"Without proper burners the mantle would be of small value. The details of the common burner, the peculiarities of which make it different from the ordinary ..."

3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"A short mantle forming a part of t|„. „liter raiment of the Greeks, ... Tbe usual mode of wearing the mantle was to pass one of its shorter sides round the ..."

4. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1910)
"Number of single mantle street lamps 119 Bolivar, Richburg. ... Number of single mantle street lamp? 15 Greenwood: Price per lamp per y ear S3 Street ..."

5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The light given by the ordinary incandescent mantle burning in an upright ... Inasmuch as for working purposes the surface that a mantle illuminates is at ..."

6. The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Giles Henry Lodge (1873)
"The mantle is drawn over both shoulders by two of its corners, and by means of them the robe is tied with the mantle beneath the breasts. ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1848)
"mantle open and fimbriated at the margin. Foot digitiform or triangular. ... mantle open for a falcate foot. Siphons unequal, partly united and divergent, ..."

8. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1840)
"Mr. Warton, in his ingenious Observations on Spenser, has given his opinion, that the fiction of the "Boy and the mantle " is taken from an old French piece ..."

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