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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.]
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1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
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[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. Bacon.
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The green mantle of the standing pool. Shak.
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree. Burns.
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2. (Her.) Same as Mantling.
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3. (Zo&ö;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.
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4. (Arch.) A mantel. See Mantel.
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5. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. Raymond.
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6. (Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel.
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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.
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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.
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Man"tle, v. i. 1. To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
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Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch. Spenser.
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Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall.
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My frail fancy fed with full delight.
Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser.
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2. To spread out; -- said of wings.
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The swan, with arched neck
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows. Milton.
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3. To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
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Though mantled in her cheek the blood. Sir W. Scott.
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4. To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
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There is a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. Shak.
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Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. Tennyson.
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