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Mantle

//ˈmæn.təl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
2
a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter wordnet
3
A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection. figuratively
"At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party."
4
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) wordnet
5
Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. figuratively
"But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill."

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shelf that projects from wall above fireplace wordnet
7
The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
"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."
8
(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell wordnet
9
The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
10
the cloak as a symbol of authority wordnet
11
The zone of hot gases around a flame.
12
anything that covers wordnet
13
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.)
14
the layer of the earth between the crust and the core wordnet
15
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
16
A penstock for a water wheel.
17
The cerebral cortex.
18
The layer between Earth's core and crust.
"The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle."
19
Any similar layer in an exoplanet.
20
Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”). alt-of, alternative
21
A mantling.

Verb

1
To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise. transitive
"As the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness; so their rising senses Begin to chace the ign'rant fumes, that mantle Their clearer reason."
2
cover like a mantle wordnet
3
To become covered or concealed. intransitive
4
spread over a surface, like a mantle wordnet
5
To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes). intransitive
"[…]—that the richest people in the world have the hardest hearts in it, and refuse to help their fellow-creatures, save through the medium of ostentation, and in return for value received?—that the highest and oldest nobility in Europe—the purest blood which ever mantled in the lovely cheek of virgin woman—is regularly exhibited in large bodies, under the protection of British matrons, policemen, and constables, at half-a-crown a head?"

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To climb over or onto something.
7
The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
8
The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.

Etymology 2

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