mantle
mantle , noun
[Old English mantel, Old French mantel, French manteau, from Latin mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (compare mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela cloth. See Manual, Textile, and compare Mandil, Mantel, Mantilla.]
1.
A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak.
a covering or concealing envelope.
[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin.
The green mantle of the standing pool.
Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree.
2.
(Heraldry) Same as Mantling.
3.
(b)
(Zoology) Any free, outer membrane.
(c)
(Zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
4.
(Architecture) A mantel. See Mantel.
5.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. — Raymond
6.
(Hydraulic Engineering) A penstock for a water wheel.
7.
(Geology) 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.
Mantle , transitive verb
To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise. — Shakespeare
Mantle , intransitive verb
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.
Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew.
My frail fancy fed with full delight.
Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.
2.
To spread out; -- said of wings.
The swan, with arched neck
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows.
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.
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.
Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.