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Definition of 'mantle'

noun

The cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"

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United States baseball player (1931-1997) [syn: Mantle, Mickey Mantle, Mickey Charles Mantle]

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The layer of the earth between the crust and the core

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Anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn: blanket, mantle]

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(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell [syn: mantle, pallium]

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Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece" [syn: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece]

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Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall]

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A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter [syn: cape, mantle]

verb

Spread over a surface, like a mantle

verb

Cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building"

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Mantle \Man"tle\, v. i.
1. To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively. [1913 Webster]
Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
2. To spread out; -- said of wings. [1913 Webster]
The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
3. To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool. [1913 Webster]
Though mantled in her cheek the blood. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
4. To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc. [1913 Webster]
There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

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. The shelf is called also a mantelpiece or mantlepiece. [Written also mantle.] [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

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.] [1913 Webster]
1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. [1913 Webster]
[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
The green mantle of the standing pool. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. --Burns. [1913 Webster]
2. (Her.) Same as Mantling. [1913 Webster]
3. (Zool.) (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. [1913 Webster]
4. (Arch.) A mantel. See Mantel. [1913 Webster]
5. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]
6. (Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel. [1913 Webster]
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. [PJC]

Mantle
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).
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.
Semikah, "a rug," the garment which Jael threw as a covering over Sisera (Judg. 4:18). The Hebrew word occurs nowhere else in Scripture.
Maataphoth, plural, only in Isa. 3:22, denoting a large exterior tunic worn by females. (See DRESS.)