mantlen.
/ˈmantl/, U.S. /ˈmæn(t)əl/ I. A protective garment or blanket, and related figurative uses.† 3. A blanket or cloth for covering; (also) a kind of woollen cloth. See also Paris mantle at Paris n. 2a. Obsolete.
1. † b. the mantle and the ring (and variants): the garment and ring assumed by a widow or wife as a symbolic expression of her vow of perpetual chastity made before a bishop. Chiefly in to take (also give, have, receive, etc.) the mantle and the ring. Also in extended use. Obsolete.† d. A kind of blanket or plaid formerly worn in rural Ireland and the Scottish Highlands. Frequently in Irish mantle. Cf. sense 1g. Obsolete.† e. white mantles n. [compare Old French Blans mantiaus, Middle French Blancs manteaulx, French Blancs manteaux denoting various religious orders, including the Knights Templar and the Teutonic knights, but properly applied only to the Servites] a religious order, perhaps the Carmelites, the Teutonic Knights, or the Knights Templars. Obsolete.† f. Apostle's mantle n. a long, loose cloak of the kind which the Apostles were commonly depicted as wearing. Obsolete.
a. A loose sleeveless cloak.The word was formerly applied indiscriminately to the outer garments of men, women, and children; at times it referred to various specific pieces of clothing. Its application is now chiefly restricted to long cloaks worn by women and to the robes worn by royal, ecclesiastical, and other dignitaries on ceremonial occasions.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape
rifteOE
mantleeOE
whittlec900
hackleeOE
bratc950
reafOE
capec1275
copec1275
cloakc1300
toge?a1400
caster1567
togeman1567
vinegar1699
overcloak1831
pharos1871
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxviii. 197 He..forcearf his mentles ænne læppan.
OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 96 Colobium, dictum quia longum est sine manicis,..mentel.
OE Will of Wynflæd (Sawyer 1539) in D. Whitelock Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930) 14 Hio becwið..Eadgyfe..hyre betstan dunnan tunecan & hyre beteran mentel.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 127 (MED) Se þe benimð ðe þine kiertel, ȝif him þine mantel.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 14755 He nom ænne spere-scæft..& dude a þene ænde ænne mantel hende.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2026 Ghe him his mentel for-held.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 1242 Vnder hur mantel sche hidde þe staf.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 16619 (MED) Þai clede him wit a mantel rede.
a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) 2013 Mantels sal þai haue... In winter dubil, in somer playne.
1505 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 168 Item, for ane mantill to Johne, fule, of Abirdene, ixs.
1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris i. iii. sig. Aiijv Her lustie mantle wauing in the winde.
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 231 I purposing to be briefe, will omit the royall habits of Kings at their Coronation, the mantle of Saint Edward.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iv. (stage direct.) The Childe richly habited in a Mantle . View more context for this quotation
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Mantile or Mantle, a kind of cloak which Souldiers in times past used in Winter.
1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 396 Attir'd in Mantles all the Knights were seen.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Mantle,..the upper-most Garment that Nurses wrap up young Infants in before they coat 'em.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 16 Fools, indeed, drop the Man in their Account, And vote the Mantle into Majesty.
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming I. i. 15 Violet mantle and green bonnet.
1880 F. V. Dickins tr. Chiushingura (new ed.) iii. 16 Badge or device on the sleeves and back of the haori or mantle.
1904 Home Notes 28 July 181 The summer mantle is always a difficult garment to find.
1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria iii. 72 Old Lord Rolle tripped up in his mantle and fell down the steps as he was doing homage.
1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities ix. 68 The white mantle over dark-brown habit..could leave no doubt that it was Sister Constance.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [verb (intransitive)] > take vow of chastity (of widow)
to take the mantle and the ringc1400
c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 22 (MED) Þis is bettere þan forto haue þe mantel and þe ryng and þe wympel and þe veil, with propurte.
1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 60 If she take þe mantel and þe rynge and avowe chastite.
c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 34 (MED) She wol perhappous maken hir avowe, That she wol take the mantle and the ryng.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 265 Next vnto hym..Sate the goddese Diana, in a mantell fyne Of blak sylke..Lyke as she had take the mantell & the ryng.
1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes To Rdr. How can that foundation stand which is made of Popes miters, Cardinals hats,..rotchets, chrismes, mantel & the ringe [etc.].
1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 187 This Godnay in the yeare 1444. wedded the widdow of Robert Large..which widdow had taken the Mantell and ring, and the vow to liue chast to God tearme of her life.
c. Heraldry. = mantling n. 5; (also) an unslashed robe of estate borne behind an achievement.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > extra-scutal devices > [noun] > drapery
mantle1481
mantling1591
paviliona1725
lambrequin1725
1481 Grant of Arms in C. M. Clode Memorials Guild Merchant Taylors (1875) 97 (modernized text) A pavilion between two mantles imperial, purple, garnished with gold in a chief azure.
1530 T. Wall Bk. Crests in Ancestor (1905) 12 71 Broke Baron beryth to his crest a sarazins hede caboched long here and berd sable crouned gold langued geules leying on the mantel geules doubled argent.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. iv. f. 103v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The crest, wyth mantelles to the helme belonging.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. i. 191 He beareth Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars..Ouched Or, garnished with strings fastened thereunto.
1645 in Trans. Shropshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1879) 2 278 Mantle gules, dowbled argent.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) i. iii. iii A Viscount's mantle hath two doublings and a half of plain white fur.
1766 M. A. Porny Elem. Heraldry Gloss. (1777) Guard, term used by some Heralds to signify the Doubling of the Mantle of the Nobility.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. iii. 47 The mantle upon the pannels [of Mr. Glossin's coach] only bore a plain cipher of G. G.
1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry 210 Mantle, this is generally understood to represent the lambrequin, or covering of the helmet... This kind of mantle cannot be used by ladies, being inseparable from the helmet. The mantle, however, is often taken to be a robe of estate, in which sense it may be borne by all ranks of gentlemen, and by peeresses.
1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xv. 154 Two or more shields may be grouped together by placing them upon a mantle of crimson velvet.
1882 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (ed. 3) iii. 55 Furs are known by the name of Doublings, when used in the linings of mantles.
1969 J. P. Brooke-Little Fox-Davies's Compl. Guide Heraldry xxiv. 300 The term ‘mantle’ is sometimes employed, but it would seem hardly quite correctly, to the parliamentary robe of estate upon which the arms of a peer of the realm were so frequently depicted.
1988 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 115 306/2 A mantle (or lambrekin) may be seen as if worn over the helmet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > plaid > types of
Irish mantle1488
bracken1652
plaidie1719
serape1834
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 217 Ane Ersche mantill it war thi kynd to wer.
a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 221 And thai gaf thaim [sc. the Douglases] mantillis agane.
1578 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 231 Ane hieland mantill of blak freis pasmentit with gold and lynit with blak taffetie.
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Fv v Mantels called Irish mantles the pair.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 37 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The Out-law..wandring in waste places..maketh his Mantle his house.
1627 J. C. Fursdon tr. R. Smith Life Visctess. Montague vi. sig. D4v To keep her shoulders from cold, she cōmonly wore a course Irish mantle.
1657–8 in D. G. Vaisey Probate Inventories Lichfield & District 1568–1680 (1969) 109 In Mr William Biddulph's chamber one downe bed..2 blankettes and an Irish mantle.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 232/2 A Brackin, or Irish Mantle.
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society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > order of knights > [noun]
Knights Hospitallersc1330
orderc1330
white mantlesc1500
hospitalary1598
Templary Knights1617
Teutonic Order1617
Templarya1661
Teutonic1693
society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > religio-military religious > Teutonic Order > [noun]
white mantlesc1500
Teutonic Knights1617
Teutonic Order1617
Teutonic1693
c1500 Melusine (1895) 20 [He] toke on hym the ordre & Religion of the whit mantelles.
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society > faith > artefacts > lay garments > items of attire > [noun] > apostle's robe
Apostle's mantlea1586
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) 1st Comm. vii. sig. bjv The apostles comonly..ben paynted with manteles..and a mantele is a louse clothynge not faste to the bodye but louse.]
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Qq3 A long cloake, after the fashion of that, which we call the Apostles mantle.
g. A blanket made of softened skins or fur, used by North American Indians, members of various South African peoples (cf. kaross n.), etc., both as a cloak and a covering for a bed or floor. Cf. sense 1d.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun]
mantle1612
1612 J. Smith Descr. Virginia in Narr. Early Virginia (1907) 99 The better sort use large mantels of deare skins not much differing in fashion from the Irish mantels.
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 187 Their Krosses (as the Hottentots term 'em) or Mantles cover the Trunks of their Bodies... They lie upon 'em at Nights. And, when they die, they are tied up and interr'd in 'em.
1776 F. Masson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 295 These Hottentots were all cloathed in crosses, or mantles, made of the hides of oxen, which they dress in a particular manner, making them as pliant as a piece of cloth.
1836 A. F. Gardiner Narr. Journey Zoolu Country 90 He (Charka) immediately rose and attempted to throw off his ingoobo (skin mantle) but fell in the act.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iv. 74 They [sc. the Indians] first appeared in two bodies on a neighbouring hill; having there dismounted, and taken off their fur mantles, they advanced naked to the charge.
1872 C. M. Sedgwick Hope Leslie II. 132 Kept on her Indian mantle in that blankety fashion.
1953 R. M. Underhill Red Man's Amer. viii. 153 Skins, with the fur on, made mantles or bedding.
2. figurative. Anything which enfolds, enwraps, or encloses as a mantle; an immaterial thing likened to or described as a covering. Also formerly: †a guise, a pretence (cf. cloak n. 3a) (obsolete).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > enfolding or enveloping > that which or one who > an enveloping medium
mantleeOE
bathc1386
middle1570
swathe1615
medium1664
eOE Royal Psalter cviii. 29 Operiantur sicut deploide confusione sua : hy syn oferwrigen getwyfyldum mentle scame heora.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 221 Þe mayde marie made of spoushod hire mantel, hueronder wolde by godes zone bi y-conceyued and y-bore.
c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1798 Night with his mantel that is derk and rude Gan ouersprede themysperie aboute.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 231 I wil þat þou knowe and vse þre synguler þingis..þat þe feend, vndir a mantel of vertu, norische not in þi soule þe roote of presumpcion.
?1435 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 637 With a mantel of-prudence cladde thow be.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBvv To be hyd vnder the mantell of mekenesse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. ii. 22 Well couer'd with the Nights black Mantle . View more context for this quotation
1625 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Free Schoole of Warre 7 The specious Mantle, and couerture of Religion.
1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 607 We have cast a mantle on what was done last Parliament.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 609 The Moon..unvaild her peerless light, And o're the dark her Silver Mantle threw. View more context for this quotation
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 23 How is Night's sable Mantle labour'd o'er.
1790 A. Francis Misc. Poems 72 He..Seeks to explore the hidden laws, sublime, Wrapt in the mantle of obscuring time.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revel. (1852) vi. 132 A mantle of deep obscurity rests on the government of God.
1896 A. R. White Youth's Educator x. 112 Elderly ladies, who are accustomed to traveling, should deem it a privilege to exercise a supervision over younger and more inexperienced ladies, thus throwing a mantle of protection around them.
1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xiv. 132 An icy mantle seemed to have suddenly settled round Marguerite's shoulders; though her cheeks glowed with fire, she felt chilled and numbed.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 308 And at the penultimate porches, the dark-red mantle Of the body's memories slips.
1997 V. Chandra Love & Longing in Bombay (1998) 166 Now she sat wrapped in the glorious mantle of her concentration.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > other
mantlec1300
osset1346
packing whites1483
stammet1531
frison1562
maldy1588
sorting-cloth1593
celter1597
washer1613
grazet1696
frisoneer1700
caneva1885
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > blanket > types of blanket
mantlec1300
fustian1424
Witney1716
rose blanket1759
under-blanket1819
Afghan1850
bluey1886
receiving blanket1891
electric blanket1893
Wagga rug1900
suggan1907
overblanket1970
c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 383 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 473 Huy nomen þe Quiene and hire child and wounden in a mantel.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 275 A Camele was hiled wiþ a mantel.
1410 Rolls of Parl. III. 637/2 Les Worstedes appellez mantelles sengles, demy doubles, & doubles.]
1485–6 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 318 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 [They] shal syll no manere fryse, nor mantill to no manere foreyne.
1539 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 39 2 blankettes, 6 schetys, 2 coverynges and a mantylle, 16 s 0 d.
1582 Edinb. Test. XI. f. 14v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mantil(l Item ane new bed mantill price iij l.
1609 in J. S. Moore Clifton & Westbury Probate Inventories (1981) 1 In His bedchamber..three yearne Coverlettes, two Rugges, one mantle of a Rugg, one truckle Bedsteede [etc.].
1660 Act 12 Chas. II (1763) c. 4 Rates Inwards..Preamble Blankets vocat. Paris mantles coloured, the mantle j l. xvi. s. viij d.
1701 P. Mordaunt Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) ii. 30 I should soner if I had ye muny by beds Mantels blankets and Clouts.
4. figurative. A duty or position of responsibility, authority, leadership, etc., esp. one assumed or inherited by one person from another. Also (in later use): any specified role or persona.Originally used with allusion to the passing of Elijah's mantle to Elisha (2 Kings 2:13), understood allegorically.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > assumption of behaviour or attitudes > part played or assumed by a person
personc1230
pageanta1425
partc1450
cue1581
role1606
figurea1616
mantle1658
assumption1871
1658 S. Slater Rhetorical Rapture (single sheet) Thy Elias-Soul long since march'd away, The Mantle falling on our Elisha.
1660 J. Dryden Epist. Sir R. Howard in R. Howard Poems sig. A8 Yet let me take your Mantle up, and I Will venture in your right to prophesy.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. xii. 229 The sacred mantle which descended from Shakespeare to Milton.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xiii. 208 He intends to come the Mirabeau—fancies his mantle has fallen on him.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 152 On Heine..incomparably the largest portion of Goethe's mantle fell.
1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 305/1 Mr. Bandelier took up last year the mantle of Mr. Morgan and gave the institute some of the results of his studies of the great community houses..of New Mexico.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. vi. 55 The mantle of the Goulds' hereditary position in Sulaco had descended amply upon her little person.
1949 Mind 58 254 More than anyone..he [sc. L. T. Hobhouse] may be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal-empiricist mantle of John Stuart Mill.
1977 J. Johnston Shadows on our Skin 78 My son will now assume the mantle of the breadwinner.
1990 Opera Now 31/1 The man who, for years, has been shaking off the mantle of the enfant terrible.
5. English regional (chiefly East Anglian). A coarse apron; a working apron.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron > types of
barm-felc1350
barm-skinc1440
ribskin1440
ribbing-skinc1450
fore-smock1536
apron1654
trashbag1688
bib-apron1750
queyu1796
mantlea1825
praskeen1827
dick1838
dicky1847
towser1865
Mother Hubbard1877
barvel1878
waulk-apron1886
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) II. 213 Mentle, a woman's coarse woollen apron.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 136 Mantle, a full apron, used when doing any dirty work.
a1903 M. E. Rope in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 32/2 Where is your mentle, you little slut, you?
1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Mantel, a woman's rough working apron.
1970 H. Orton & P. M. Tilling Surv. Eng. Dial. III. ii. 714 [Norfolk, Suffolk.] Q[uestion] What do you call the thing that women put on in front to keep their dresses clean?.. Mantle.
6. A measure or quantity of furs, containing from 30 to 100 skins according to size. Cf. pane n.1 2. Obsolete.‘In that work [sc. Halyburton's Ledger (c1492–1503)] the words Mantil and pane, though not identical in meaning, are used to denote the same number of skins’ (J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl.).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > bundle or quantity
timbera1150
mantle1420
tavelin1439
pane1612
turn1891
1420–1 in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 504 (MED) De Johanne Potte pro..ii mantellis martynwombe.
1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 15 Item coft fra Will Sinclare v mantill of banes to lyne a syde gowne to the King.
1490 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 190 Item..for iij mantillis of fwnȝeis.
1545 Rates Custome House sig. bijv Foxe skynnes the pane or mantel. vi.s. viii.d... Fytcheues the pane or mantell v.s.
1545 Rates Custome House sig. dj White kydes the mantell ij.s.
1590 Rates Custome House sig. B2 Cats pouts the mantle v.s... Cats pouts the hundreth containing v xx. xiij. s. iiij. d.
1609 Rates Marchandizes sig. G4 Foxes the pane or Mantle, x.s.
1662 Irish Act 14 & 15 Chas. II c. 8 (Rates Inwards) Furs vocat. Foxes the pain or mantle 15s.
III. Senses relating to life sciences.† 7. Anatomy. A lobe of the liver. Obsolete. rare.† 9. Botany. = ocrea n. 1. Obsolete.† 11. Zoology. The layer of striated muscle situated below the skin in many mammals. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > liver > lobe of
lapc1000
liver lapOE
fibre1398
mantle?c1425
boss?1541
lobe?1541
lop1601
fillet1607
lappet1609
fin1615
lobbet1662
acinus1701
spigelian lobe1811
Riedel's lobe1897
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 61 It [sc. the liver] haþ a croked schappe..wiþ 5 lappettes or mantelles [L. lumbis seu pennulis].
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 63 (MED) The hucche of þe galle is..isette in þe holownesse of þe lyuer aboute the myddel mantel or lappette.
8. Zoology. In molluscs, cirripedes, and brachiopods: the layer of epidermal tissue which encloses the body and secretes the shell. Also: any of various similar enclosing structures, such as the body wall of an ascidian or (formerly) the pronotum of a cricket. Cf. pallium n. 3b, cloak n. 4.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun]
mantlea1475
hackle1609
integument1664
rind1667
leather1883
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc
ungulaa1382
mantlea1475
trunk1661
diaphragm1665
lid1681
operculum1681
ear1688
beard1697
corslet1753
scar1793
opercle1808
pleura1826
pallium1834
byssus1835
cephalic ganglia1835–6
opercule1836
lingual ribbon1839
tube1839
cloak1842
test1842
collar1847
testa1847
rachis1851
uncinus1851
land-shell1853
mantle cavity1853
mesopodium1853
propodium1853
radula1853
malacology1854
gill comb1861
pallial cavity1862
tongue-tootha1877
mesopode1877
odontophore1877
pallial chamber1877
shell-gland1877
rasp1879
protopodium1880
ctenidium1883
osphradium1883
shell-sac1883
tooth-ribbon1883
megalaesthete1885
rachidian1900
scungille1953
tentacle-sheath-
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 160 Þe whelke, looke þat..his pyntill & gutt, almond & mantille, awey þer fro ye pitt.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis (1694) i. vii. 160 The Fen-Kricket or Chur-Worme... His Hood or Mantle..is about ½ an inch long; extended forward, over part of his Head; behind, over part of his Wings.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 7 Cephalopoda.—Lower part of the body contained in a bag-shaped mantle.
1855 W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. iv. 419 The animals forming the class Tunicata..are composed of two tunics; an outer, the mantle, and an inner tunic, which lines a large respiratory cavity.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. ii. §45 An Ascidian consists..of an external membranous bag or ‘mantle’, within which is a Muscular envelope.
1901 E. Step Shell Life v. 62 Towards the hinder margin of the whitish mantle there is a number of closely grouped ocelli.
1953 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 237 360 The pseudofaecal strings are conveyed to the end of the waste canals and so into the angle between the inner lobe of the mantle edge and the ctenidial membrane.., above which they are caught in the exhalant current and carried away.
1982 Sci. Amer. Apr. 83/2 The mantle, or body, of the giant squid is more or less narrowly cone-shaped.
1995 P. J. Hayward et al. in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe x. 484 The visceral mass is enclosed by a wide fold of body wall, the mantle or pallium.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > petiole or leaf-stalk > [noun] > stipule
mantle1672
stipula1763
stipule1793
stipe1821
stipel1821
ocrea1830
paraphyllium1832
stipella1832
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iv. 120 Where none of all the Protections above-named are convenient, there the Membranes of the Leaves by continuation in their first forming..are drawn out into so many Mantles or Veins; as in Docks, Snakeweed, etc.
10. Ornithology. The plumage of the back and folded wings of a bird, esp. when distinct in colour.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > on back
scapular1766
mantle1840
scapulary1854
stragulum1891
cape1899
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 263 The Barnacle Goose..with a grey mantle.
1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 90 Sandy rufous, broadly streaked with black, except on the mantle.
1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 627/2 The peacock pheasants Polyplectron spp. form a very distinct genus of small pheasants with long tails and a grey or brown plumage marked with metallic green and purple ocellae on the mantle, wings, and tail.
1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard ii. 98 Later this day I saw a merlin-sized falcon with black mantle, white beneath; passing overhead, it would have seemed to be a pure-white bird.
1991 Bird Watching June 57/4 The long-billed dowitcher..had started to moult into fresh mantle feathers.
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1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 525/1 Mantle, Panniculus carnosus.
1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mantle, a clock; a loose outer cover. A term for the Panniculus carnosus.
12. Anatomy. = pallium n. 3d.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > cerebrum > hemisphere > pallium
mantle1866
pallium1890
1866 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 7) II. 580 The other [part of the hemisphere-vesicle] forms the expanded or covering portion of the hemisphere, and is designated by Reichert, the mantle.
1901 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 35 437 Even at the present day the term ‘mantle’ may be used to designate the epithelial roof of the hemisphere of a Teleostean, or the thinner parts of the hemisphere in Reptiles.
1967 Brain 90 849 Certain malformations accompanying hydranencephaly indicate that the defect is the result of agenesis of the cerebral mantle during the early stage of development.
1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. xxvi. 683/1 The ablation of cerebral tissue is limited to the most recently acquired part of the cerebrum, its mantle or cortex.
13. Botany. The outer layer of cells in an apical meristem. Cf. tunica n.1
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > tip from which new growth emerges
apex1835
growing point1835
mantle1884
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 13 Each one of the inner layers..of this mantle has its initial group above the apex of the plerome.
1961 F. A. L. Clowes Apical Meristems xi. 110 The primary meristem mantle..is prominent in some monocotyledons.
1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 48 Commonly in the angiosperms..an outer layer..of cells of the apical meristem, called the tunica or mantle and an inner mass of cells, called the corpus or core are distinguished.
IV. Other extended uses.† 15. Military. A movable shelter, esp. one used to protect besieging soldiers; = mantlet n. 2a. Also in quot. 14891: a temporary wooden bulwark. Obsolete (archaic in later use).
14. † b. A scum formed on wine (beer, etc.) during fermentation. Also: the algal bloom which forms on pools of stagnant water. Cf. mantle v. 6. Obsolete.† c. A blush or suffusion of colour produced by emotion. Cf. mantle v. 10. Obsolete. rare.
a. gen. (frequently literary and poetic). A material covering, esp. a natural one (as opposed to something man-made).
ΚΠ
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 147 Fresch Flora hir floury mantill spreid.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 139/1 in Chron. I Wyth the redde mantell of their cluttered bloud.
1593 M. Drayton Idea ix. sig. Kv The drouping trees..In mossie mantles doe expresse their moane.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 462 Sad Nilus..spreads his Mantle o're the winding Coast: In which he wraps his Queen.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 330 Earth receives Gladly the thickening mantle [sc. snow].
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. iii. 72 Ruins, over which vegetation had thrown a wild mantle of ivy.
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxvi. 484 The elliptical shaped mass of the Wren's nest is..composed of an exterior mantle of pure and impure limestone.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 105 in Idylls of King [She] drew The vast and shaggy mantle of his beard Across her neck and bosom to her knee.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 189 The ejected matter has fallen..in conical layers, each forming a mantle thrown irregularly over the preceding layer.
1954 J. Cheever Jrnls. (1991) 46 Rosemary Clooney—a young woman with an unusually deep front and a very heavy and unquiet mantle of yellow hair.
1962 Listener 1 Mar. 376/1 Since..the upper part of the atmospheric mantle is rich in carbon dioxide, advanced life-forms on the surface of Venus seem unlikely.
1994 National Health Nov.–Dec. 50/3 Many newborns are taken from their parents and immediately bathed in an antibacterial soap, which disturbs the skin's acid mantle (the skin's natural acidity).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > scum
flower1548
mantle1601
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > thin > on liquid
scumc1440
skim1539
float1600
mantle1601
supernatancy1670
flip1682
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 426 The flower or mantle which the wine casteth up to the top [L. flos vini].
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 121 Poore Tom, that..drinkes the greene mantle of the standing poole. View more context for this quotation
1817 J. Mayer Sportsman's Direct. (ed. 2) 128 To take the mantle off the water, lash bits of scorels, about four feet long, to each other [etc.].
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > with blushing
blushing1581
flushing1590
suffusion1700
flush1706
bloom1752
mantling1753
rouge1759
hectic1768
vermilion1787
smoking1862
mantle1897
1897 R. D. Blackmore Dariel xii. 111 ‘Young Earls!’ exclaimed Grace, with an innocence so pure that it required a little mantle on her cheeks.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed
sow1297
mantel1357
snail1408
vinet1408
whelk1408
circlec1440
barbed-cat1489
mantle1489
mantlet1524
vine1565
tortoise1569
sow-guard1582
penthouse1600
penticle1600
target-roof1601
vinea1601
fence-roof1609
testudo1609
cat-house1614
vineyard1650
tortoiseshell1726
manta1829
cat1833
ram-house1850
tortoise-roof1855
bear1865
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xiv. 118 Mayntelles and barbakanes of tymbre shal be made fast to the batelmentes.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxii. 135 Six grete mantelles for the said six grete gonnes.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 99 Barres of iren for the grete mantell.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxxxviii. 431 The Englysshmen ordayned mantels and other instrumentes of warr, wherby to aproche nere to the walles.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxxii. 519 They of the hoost caused to be made dyuers mantels of assaute.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 Paueis veil the top, vitht pauesis and mantillis.
1589 W. Wren in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 145 We sent too lande a boate or skiffe wherein were eight persons, and..they carried with them two harquebusses, two targets, and a mantell.
1739 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. I. iii. i. 298 He caused rams, mantles, and scaling ladders to be got ready.
1808 R. Southey Chron. Cid. (Morley) 19 King Don Ferrando therefore ordered mantles to be made, and also pavaises to protect his people.
16.
a. A covering, envelope, or shade employed in various mechanical devices; (Bee-keeping) †a cloth made of linen or some other material used for the collection of swarms (obsolete).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > bee-keeping equipment
mantle1609
crown pina1642
queen cage1853
foundation1867
smoker1875
comb-foundation1880
honey bucket1886
bee-smoker1897
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > roof or hood
top1617
head1768
mantle1794
calash1844
imperial1870
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie v. sig. F4 Your hiue being fitted & dressed, you must haue also in a readines a Mantle, a Rest, and a brush. The Mantle may be a sheet or half-sheet, or some other linnen cloth an ell square at the least.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 274 Bring them [sc. the swarms] together, shaking the Bees out of one Hive on the Mantle whereon the other Hive stands.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 208 The mantle, of which there are various shapes, is introduced only as an ornament.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1385/1 Mantle, an inclosed chute which leads the water from a fore-bay to a water-wheel.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 293/2 Mantle, the outer wall of masonry.
1966 P. Wright in Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. lxvi. 43 The main parts of a blast-furnace are:... 4. Stack ‘chimney’... 7. Mantle (to support the stack).
1974 M. Ayrton Midas Consequence viii. 206 Before this, he has run in tubes of wax, reasonably called runners, to join the freestanding elements of the sculpture and ensure a fast and even flow of hot metal through the mantle in due course.
b. A fragile mesh covering fixed over a gas jet to give an incandescent light when heated; = gas mantle n. at gas n.1 and adj. Compounds 3. Cf. also Welsbach n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp > parts of > gas-burner > gas mantle
mantle1887
gas mantle1895
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Mar. 12/1 His [sc. Welsbach's] invention consists in fixing around the flame of a special form of gas burner a tubular wick or hood of open cotton fabric, termed the mantle.
1912 A. Bennett Matador of Five Towns & Other Stories 308 The Welsbach incandescent mantles on the chandelier saved thirty per cent in gas-bills while increasing the light by fifty per cent.
1949 M. McLaverty Game Cock 143 When Johnny came up to bed he always lit the gas, the gas that had no mantle.
1966 Caravan & Camping Nov. 29/2 There is nothing old fashioned about the interior except the gas lights (effective but the mantles have to be removed before towing).
1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies ii. i. 122 What interested me most were the gas lamps with their white mantles that seemed to light up at the touch of a chain.
17. Geology. [after German Mantel (E. Wiechert 1897, in Nachrichten von der Königl. Ges. der Wissensch. zu Göttingen Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse 222).] The region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks. Also: the corresponding part of another planetary body.The mantle extends from the bottom of the crust (at a depth of about 30 km or 19 miles) for about 2,900 km (1,800 miles) to the boundary with the core. Although originally not distinguished from the crust (see quots. 19401, 1955), the mantle differs from it in physical properties (esp. density) and in chemical composition.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [noun] > mantle
mantle1936
1936 J. B. Macelwane Introd. Theoret. Seismol. I. viii. 217 As Jung has shown, the Herglotz-Wiechert method fails if a shadow zone appears as it does in the earth, no matter what is the nature of the transition from the mantle to the core.
1940 R. A. Daly Strength & Struct. Earth i. 1 The earth contains a spheroidal core... The rest of the planet, beneath ocean and atmosphere,..may be distinguished as a whole by the name ‘mantle’.
1940 R. A. Daly Strength & Struct. Earth i. 21 At the depth of about 2,900 kilometers..there is..an interface or rapid transition between the earth's silicate mantle and its ‘iron’ core.
1955 Sci. Amer. Sept. 58/3 All the earth outside the core is called the mantle. The whole of the mantle (apart from the oceans and pockets of magma in volcanic regions) is now known to be essentially solid.
1958 Nature 13 Sept. 692/1 The Mohorovičić discontinuity is the boundary between the mantle and the assorted surface rocks of the earth, and it marks a very sharp change in the velocity with which earthquake waves travel.
1962 Listener 30 Aug. 304/1 Geophysicists are preparing to drill a hole six kilometres deep through the earth's crust to the mantle.
1969 New Yorker 12 Apr. 96/2 If the structure of the moon proves to be similar to the earth's—that is, to have a core, a mantle, and a crust—then geologists may be able to learn a good deal about the structure of the earth.
1989 Nature 26 Jan. 328/1 The seismically transparent zone immediately north of the Redbank Thrust is interpreted as a region of predominantly mantle material emplaced by major thrusting.
1996 Sci. Amer. Jan. 62/1 So-called tertiary crust may form if surface layers are returned back into the mantle of a geologically active planet.
Compounds
C1.
a. (In sense 1.)† mantle lace n. Obsolete
mantle cloth n.
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c1330 St. Mary Magdalene (Auch.) 434 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 168 (MED) He fond hem boþe, Yhiled vnder his mantel-cloþe.
1561 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1916) XI. 85 x elnis of gray mantill claith.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 341 Mantle cloths, a term employed in trade to denote every description of cloth suitable for mantles, cloaks, and..exterior clothing.
mantle-cutter n.
ΚΠ
1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/5 Mantle-cutter.—Wanted a superior Cutter and Fitter.
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a1483 Wardrobe Acct. Edw. IV (1830) 136 Mantell lace of blue silk.
1600 Bk. of Robes f. 11, in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 255 One Mantle..with a Mantle lace of silke and golde.
mantle-veil n.
ΚΠ
1879 E. Waterton Pietas Mariana 89 The mantle-veil of our Ladye at Chartres.
mantle worker n.
ΚΠ
1905 N.E.D. at Mantle sb. Mantle worker.
b. (In sense 8.)
mantle border n.
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1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 96/2 Mantle-border smooth, but with tufts of hair at the lateral extremities of each plate.
mantle-fin n.
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1836 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 523/1 Octopods..characterized by the absence of mantle-fins.
mantle flap n.
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1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 648/2 The presence of glandular plication of the surface of the mantle-flap..and an adrectal gland (purple-gland).
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 385 The members of this class [sc. bivalves] are bilaterally symmetrical... On each side, right and left, there is a mantle-flap and a shell-valve.
1973 P. Tasch Paleobiol. Invertebr. vii. 263/2 The outer surface of the mantle flaps (lobes) became white and smooth, indicating initial shell formation (protegulum).
mantle-fringe n.
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1856 G. J. Allman Monogr. Fresh-water Polyzoa 46 The real homology of the Ascidian tentacula is, in fact, to be found in the tentacular mantel-fringe of a lamellibranchiate mollusc.
1981 Paleobiology 7 537 Our observations confirm that Polinices does not ingest the siphons or mantle-fringes of Mya.
mantle lobe n.
ΚΠ
1849 G. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 31 The mantle-lobes [of Trigonia] are rounded and plaited.
1855 W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 430 The mantle lobes are free all round.
1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) i. 6 There arise a pair of muscular sheets which form a lining to the two valves, and by which the valves are in fact secreted: these are called the mantle-lobes.
1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) xix. 1032/1 The shell is secreted by the underlying dorsal and ventral mantle lobes.
mantle margin n.
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1905 N.E.D. at Mantle sb. Mantle margin.
1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life (new ed.) viii. 139 The gills are long and much folded back, the siphons rather long,..the mantle-margins jagged.
mantle-sac n.
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1836 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 533/1 The mantle-sac is almost wholly filled with the viscera.
mantle skirt n.
ΚΠ
1912 N.E.D. at Theco- A group of pteropods having the body sheathed in a mantle-skirt.
1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs ix. 175 The best-known British representative of the Arminacea is the..Pleurophyllidia, with secondary gill-lamellae crowded beneath the mantle skirt.
1995 P. J. Hayward et al. in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe x. 484 The mantle skirt covers the whole of the animal and typically incorporates a mantle or pallial cavity.
c. (In sense 16b.)
mantle lamp n.
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1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 200 The Aladdin paraffin mantle lamp.
1945 Caravan Man. vii. 86 With an incandescent mantle lamp a lot of heat is generated.
1980 R. H. Wiebe Mad Trapper i. ii. 12 The cans on the shelves bounced, the hanging mantle lamps swung to the drum of their moccasined feet.
C2. † mantle-breather n. [after scientific Latin Palliobranchiata, plural noun] Zoology Obsolete rare a brachiopod.† mantle-breathing adj. Obsolete rare = palliobranchiate adj. and n. at pallio- comb. form .† mantle lap n. Obsolete the lower part of a cloak. † mantle wind n. Obsolete rare a current of air produced by a winnowing-sheet.
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1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 258 De Blainville's subsequently proposed title of ‘mantle-breathers’.
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1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 258 The Brachiopoda, or mantle-breathing bivalves.
mantle cavity n. Zoology the space enclosed between the mantle and the body of a mollusc, brachiopod, etc., containing respiratory organs.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Brachiopoda > [noun] > member of > parts of
periosteum1758
periostracum1833
pallium1834
mantle cavity1853
adjustor1857
jugum1888
protegulum1891
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc
ungulaa1382
mantlea1475
trunk1661
diaphragm1665
lid1681
operculum1681
ear1688
beard1697
corslet1753
scar1793
opercle1808
pleura1826
pallium1834
byssus1835
cephalic ganglia1835–6
opercule1836
lingual ribbon1839
tube1839
cloak1842
test1842
collar1847
testa1847
rachis1851
uncinus1851
land-shell1853
mantle cavity1853
mesopodium1853
propodium1853
radula1853
malacology1854
gill comb1861
pallial cavity1862
tongue-tootha1877
mesopode1877
odontophore1877
pallial chamber1877
shell-gland1877
rasp1879
protopodium1880
ctenidium1883
osphradium1883
shell-sac1883
tooth-ribbon1883
megalaesthete1885
rachidian1900
scungille1953
tentacle-sheath-
1853 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 143 37 It [sc. the heart] lies parallel to the rectum, with the auricle forwards at the base of the mantle-cavity.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XX. 794/2 Rhodeus amarus, the bitterling,..injects its eggs into the mantle-cavity of pond-mussels, where the fry develop.
1958 New Biol. 25 100 The visceral mass (of Cuttlefish) is closed all round by a muscular mantle in such a way that below and to the sides of it there is a cavity—the mantle cavity.
1990 Connecticut Environment July 19/3 Strong contractions of the adductor muscle produce jets of water from the mantle cavity and propel the scallop along the sea floor.
mantle fibre n. Cell Biology any spindle fibre which is attached to a chromosome.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > spindle or spindle fibre
spindle1878
spindle fibre1878
mitosome1895
mantle fibre1896
monaster1901
cleavage-spindle1912
telomere1940
1896 E. B. Wilson Cell ii. 74 The daughter-chromosomes are dragged apart solely by the contractile mantle-fibres, the central spindle-fibres being non-contractile.
1920 L. Doncaster Introd. Study Cytol. iii. 31 In some animals these fibres are said to be of different thickness, those attached to chromosomes being thicker and called ‘mantle fibres’ (from their appearance at a later stage).
1966 D. M. Kramsch tr. E. Grundmann Gen. Cytol. iii. 149 We are dealing with a central spindle, on whose exterior aspect the chromosomal spindle fibres are attached as mantle fibres.
mantle-fold n. (a) a fold in a cloak (rare); (b) Zoology a fold in the layer of epidermal tissue enclosing the body of a mollusc, cirripede, or brachiopod.
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1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles ii. xi. 53 Whence the broach of burning gold, That clasps the Chieftain's mantle fold.
1848 T. J. Newbold in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 4 i. 337 The mother-star [in Cyathophylla]..is often surrounded by broad radiated mantle-folds.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 692 They [sc. the valves of Coelomate Metazoa] are lined by two mantle folds or extensions of the body walls.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 396 The Nudibranchs or sea-slugs, without shell, mantle-fold, or true gill.
1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) ii. 39 The edges of these mantle-folds are thickened.
mantle-knot n. [compare French nœud de diamants] an ornament in the form of a clasp, composed of a number of precious stones.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > brooch or pin > [noun] > other brooches
breast brooch1625
breastpin1779
mourning pin1822
bosom-brooch1835
witch brooch1871
mantle-knot1896
fáinne1919
1896 Star 3 Oct. 2/4 A splendid collection of diamonds..is to be sold... The collection includes two mantle-knots which belonged to the Empress Eugénie.
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a1425 N. Homily Legendary (Harl. suppl.) in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 87 It [sc. a child] lurked vnder þe mantill lapp.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 227 (MED) Þat fayre lady..saued hym from þe fyre wyth her mantell-lappe about hym.
mantle material n. Geology rock or magma originating from the earth's mantle, or the mantle of another planetary body.
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1962 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 67 860/1 (note) Peridotite is an unsatisfactory name for the hypothetical primitive mantle material.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans iii. 90 A plume of mantle material forces its way through the crust.
1990 P. Kearey & F. J. Vine Global Tectonics vi. 110 The distinctive nature of these rocks arises from their formation by metasomatic processes in which the volatile content of a large volume of mantle material is focused and concentrated.
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mantle plume n. Geology see plume n. 7c.
mantle rock n. Geology (a) a superficial deposit of rock; (b) rock that forms or formerly formed part of the earth's mantle.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > [noun] > material of earth's crust
rock1671
mantle rock1896
sima1909
sial1922
asthenolith1929
pyrolite1962
1896 J. W. Powell in Physiogr. U.S. (National Geogr. Soc.) 14 The materials may be called mantle rocks or superficial deposits.
1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. v. 104 Mantle rock..is moved downslope by creep, slump, other types of mass-wasting, and by sheet-wash.
1994 Trav. Guide 1994 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Ramble over an ancient expanse of mantle rock. Where colossal collisions of tectonic plates created formations as barren as the moon.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 74/1 Mantling, or Mantle Wind, is to make Wind with a Winnow sheet, or course cloth held by two persons.
Derivatives
ˈmantle-like adj.
ΚΠ
1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 77/2 Long, pointed, mantle-like garments.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 7/1 The bitterly cold atmosphere and the thick fog which hung, mantle-like, all over the park.
1965 K. Esau Plant Anat. (ed. 2) v. 93 The dermatogen and the periblem form mantle-like layers covering the plerome.
1980 A. L. Smith Microbiol. & Pathol. (ed. 12) i. xxv. 300/2 The endemic typhus fever of Mexico is known as tabardillo (from the Spanish word tabardo, meaning a coloured cloak, to designate the mantlelike spotted rash of the disease).
ˈmantle-wise adv. in the manner of a cloak or mantle.
ΚΠ
c1530 Court of Love 243 In sondry clothing, mantil-wyse full wyde, They were arrayed.
1791 J. Ingraham Jrnl. 2 Sept. in Jrnl. Brigantine Hope (1971) 150 The dress of the men is either garments of bark or the skins of animals sewed together and worn mantlewise as at Nootka Sound.
1862 G. P. Scrope Volcanos (ed. 2) 170 The greater part..spread themselves mantlewise over its surface and slopes.
a1916 A. Seeger Sonnet X in Poems (1917) 77 Around her lovely shoulders mantle-wise Hath come the realm of those old fabulous queens Whose storied loves are Art's rich heritage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
mantlev.
/ˈmantl/, U.S. /ˈmæn(t)əl/ a. transitive. Frequently in passive. To clothe or dress (a person or part of the body) in a mantle or similar garment. Of a garment: to cover or enfold (a person or part of the body). Also with over, up. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > cloak or mantle
cope1362
mantlec1429
cloak?1521
?c1225 Ancrene Riwle (Cleo.: Scribe B) (1972) 312 (note) Inwið þe wanes ha muhe werie scapeloris... Vte gan imantlet þe heauet ihudeket.
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 2326 (MED) Thay mantlid hym in swylk coloure for scorne.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 25 Canina lookes to them [sc. infants] in their swathing bands, whilst they are bound up and mantled.
1689 C. Cotton Winter xxxiii Look where Mantled up in White, He sleads it like the Muscovite.
1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 166 Saul. Who's that, that comes?—Witch.—An old Man mantled o'er.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 9 The buff coat, in ample fold, Mantles his form's gigantic mould.
1881 M. Arnold Ode Westm. Abbey x The mourning-stole no more Mantled her form.
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 84/1 The priest, mantled with the veil, makes the sign of the cross.
b. transitive. Probably: to make up furs or cloth into a mantle. Obsolete. rare.
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1503 [implied in: 1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 227 Payit..for xxxv tymir of ermyng... Item for mantilling of the samyn. (at mantling n. 1)].
c1615 in Victoria Hist. Suffolk (1907) (modernized text) II. 262 For mantling, folding, pressing, and tilloting each cloth 20d.
2.
a. transitive. figurative and in extended use (frequently in passive): to cover; to encircle, surround, or envelop; to conceal or obscure. In early use: †to disguise or palliate (a fault) (obsolete). Also with over, up.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium
belapc1175
take?a1300
wrapa1382
environa1393
enumberc1400
involvea1420
enfoldc1425
bewrapa1430
mantlec1450
envelop1474
enwrap1545
imply1590
circumvolve1607
circumfuse1608
becloaka1618
swathe1624
gird1645
wrap1656
velope1722
steep1798
bathe1816
cloak1818
impall1852
atmosphere1881
kirtle1888
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 121 This mantelle..was maad..for to mantelle with my defautes and consele myne vnthriftes.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 104 Þei..hidun þer bicis [read vicis] wiþ a veyn hiȝt of better lif, & mantel it wiþ a name of ymaginid religioun.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H2 A frown that was able to mantle the world with an eternall night.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xv. lxi. 279 And her faire lockes,..she gan at large vnfold; Which falling long and thicke, and spreading wide, The iuorie soft and white, mantled in gold.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 67 Their rising sences Begin to chace the ignorant fumes that mantle Their cleerer reason.
1650 T. Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica 15 The Earth was so overcast, and Mantl'd with the Water, that no part thereof was to be seen.
1685 J. Bunyan Disc. Pharisee & Publicane 18 He came into the Temple mantled up in his own good things.
1743 J. Davidson tr. Virgil Æneid viii. 247 Night..with her dusky wings mantles the sky.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 420 Her hedge-row shrubs..With woodbine and wild roses mantled o'er.
1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 60 Its venerable trunk is richly mantled with ivy.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 275 A film comes over the eyes, and the brain is, as it were, mantled over.
1890 Daily News 31 Jan. 5/5 The mountains thus brilliantly mantled and capped with snow.
1927 J. Devanny Old Savage 47 Behind her, tough shrubs, tarwinie and gorse, mantled the terrace leading back to the low hills.
1953 P. Gallico Foolish Immortals xvii. 97 What was the secret of the penetration and the tranquillity that mantled him?
1990 Jrnl. Petrol. 31 1288 Occasionally, augite is mantled by amphibole.
b. transitive. spec. To cover (a heap of alum ore) with a coating of ashes in order to shelter it from the weather. rare.
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1879 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts I. 327 Calcination is..effected by means of a smothered fire; care must be taken to prevent the mass from becoming fused and from disengaging sulphurous vapours. To this end, the mass is after a time covered with a coating of calcined ore, or ‘mantled’, as it is termed, in order to shelter the burning heap from wind and rain.
a. intransitive. To protect oneself. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > protect or defend [verb (reflexive)]
were993
keepc1175
skere1390
wait onc1390
shroud14..
mantlec1475
fend1865
c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 20 (MED) Mantelle, fortifie, and make yow strong ayenst the power of youre said adversaries.
b. transitive. To protect or fortify (a town, fortification, etc.) with a covering. Usually in passive. Cf. mantle n. 15, 1. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > protect with screen or shelter [verb (transitive)]
mantle1612
1612 W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia vi. 38, in J. Smith Map of Virginia They conducted vs to their pallizadoed towne, mantelled with the barkes of trees.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 8 Its Bastions..are well..mantled with hewen stone.
4. intransitive and †transitive (reflexive). Of a bird of prey: to stretch a wing over an outstretched leg, and then repeat this movement on the other side (when rousing itself from sleep or rest); to spread the wings and tail so as to cover food or captured prey. Also transitive: to spread (the wings) protectively. Also more generally (of a swan, etc.) and in extended use.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > actions of Falconiformes
aire1472
jouk1486
mantle1486
to turn taila1586
carry1614
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. avjv She mantellith and not stretchith whan she puttith her leges from hir oon after an other: and hir wynges folow after hier legges then she dooth mantill hir.
c1575 Perfect Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) 10 Let her styre, rouse, mantle, or warbile a while.
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti lxxii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. E5v There my fraile fancy fed with full delight, Doth bath in blisse and mantleth most at ease.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa7 Ne is there hauke, which mantleth her on pearch,..But I the measure of her flight doe search. View more context for this quotation
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xx. 228 She [sc. a hawk] manteleth [etc.].
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 439 The Swan with Arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, Rowes Her state with Oarie feet. View more context for this quotation
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iii. 32 The Shikrah, who was quietly ‘mantling’ upon a clear branch in a nice sunny place.
1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby xxiii. 228 The snowy swans were ‘mantling proudly’ on the water.
a1923 H. Trench Deirdre Wed 67 Up in her hold The wide-wing'd Azure cold Mantling in gyre on gyre shall mark him come.
1976 L. Brown Birds of Prey 116 (caption) This female Goshawk has killed a cock Pheasant and is feeding, while ‘mantling’ with spread wings over her prey in protective threat.
1985 W. Horwood Callanish (BNC) 96 He mantled his wings automatically and thrust his head forward aggressively, obeying a deep instinct to protect himself from danger.
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1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xi. 44 The restlesse cloudes that mantling ride vpon the racking Skie.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 279 The pair [of wings] that clad Each shoulder broad, came mantling o're his brest With regal Ornament. View more context for this quotation
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 24 And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 342 As countless beds of sand and scoriæ constitute the greater part of the whole mass, these may sometimes mantle continuously round the whole cone.
1891 H. C. Beeching Melancholia in Love's Looking Glass 147 A foggy cloud still mantles, hiding you.
6. † b. intransitive. In extended use. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. Of a liquid, esp. one forming an alcoholic drink: to be or become covered with a coating or scum; to form a head or froth; to cream. Of a coating or scum: to form on the surface of a liquid. Also with over, up. Also transitive. Cf. mantle n. 14b.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)] > foam or froth
foamc950
spumec1400
creamc1440
ream1440
fry1590
mantle1595
froth1603
sud1603
freathe1786
sponge1790
yeast1880
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > become coated with a layer [verb (intransitive)] > with a thin layer > of liquid
creamc1440
mantle1595
scum1769
1595 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Babilon 53 Then Gueuara [etc.] with Nectar all distained, that mantleth in the glas of honny-powring pyth, vphold the Castillan.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §46 It drinketh fresh, flowreth and mantleth excedingly.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ iv. 50 The Bran of Wheat, a little thereof boyled in our ordinary Beer, maketh it mantle, or flower in the Cup when it is poured out.
1707–12 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (1721) II. 333 Your Cyder will acquire a fine briskness, and mantle in the Glass.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 378 The poison mantled in the golden bowl.
1801 J. Leyden Elfin-King xxi The cup..With heath-ale mantling o'er.
1846 C. Dickens Pictures from Italy 131 The marshy town was so intensely dull and flat, that the dirt upon it seemed..to have settled and mantled on its surface as on standing water.
1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iii. 73 As the remnant-wine in cup Fast shall fill and mantle up.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 274 What was their shimmer but the shimmer of the scum that mantled the cesspool of the court of a slobbering Stuart.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 89 There are a sort of men whose visages Doe creame and mantle like a standing pond. View more context for this quotation
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab viii. 104 Health floats amid the gentle atmosphere, Glows in the fruits, and mantles on the stream.
1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 95 A golden Chalice standing by,—What mantles there is life or death.
a1882 J. Thomson Ronald & Helen in Poet. Wks. (1895) II. 219 He shook himself erect, to feel The rich blood mantling through his stalwart frame, A fervent wine of life from brow to heel.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > desire strongly or eagerly [verb (intransitive)]
famish1535
gape1552
to gasp for1553
pant1560
mantle1657
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 162 When Daphnis saw it [sc. an apple], he mantled to be at it.
1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 79 Mantling like Mare in Martingale She thus reply'd.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 74/1 Mantling, or Mantle Wind, is to make Wind with a Winnow sheet, or course cloth held by two persons.
9. transitive. English regional. To embrace (a person) in a friendly or affectionate manner. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)] > embrace affectionately
mantle1691
love1877
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) To Mantle, kindly to embrace.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Mantle, to embrace kindly.
10.
a. intransitive. Of the blood, a blush, etc.: to suffuse the cheeks. Of the face or cheeks: to be suffused with glowing colour, to flush. Also in extended use.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [verb (intransitive)] > blush
redOE
rudOE
glowc1386
blushc1450
colour1616
paint1631
reddena1648
vermilion1699
mantle1707
flush1709
crimson1780
rouge1780
ruddy1845
smoke1862
mount1894
rose1922
1707 [implied in: E. Smith Phædra & Hippolytus (1709) ii. 13 When mantling Blood Glow'd in his lovely Cheeks. (at mantling adj. 4)].
1709 J. Dennis Appius & Virginia ii. 11 His Blood flows mantling o'er his wrathful Face.
1766 O. Goldsmith Ballad [the Hermit] in Vicar of Wakefield I. viii Surpriz'd he sees new beauties rise, Swift mantling to the view.
1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. xvii. 149 The blood that mantles in her cheeks.
1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. 90 The rosy blush of morn began to mantle in the east.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab viii. 100 Such joy as when a lover..Sees her unfaded cheek Glow mantling in first luxury of health.
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) ix Her rich face mantling with emotion.
1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life xxviii. 372 The blood mantled in his cheek, and his eye as it caught mine twinkled with pure enjoyment.
1974 F. Muir in F. Muir & D. Norden Upon my Word! 53 My cheek mantling, I handed the biscuit barrel to Mrs Rumbold.
b. transitive. Of a blush or flush of colour: to suffuse (the face or part of the face) with colour. Also of an idea, emotion, etc.: to cause (blood) to rise to the surface of the face producing a blush, to produce a blush in (the face or cheeks).
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1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xv. 272 The idea..mantled the blood in my cheeks till I was as red as a turkey-cock.
1884 Punch 16 Feb. 76/2 With downcast eyes and faint blush mantling his thoughtful brow.
1908 J. London Martin Eden xix. 164 Ruth nodded, and again a blush mantled her face.
1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence i. 4 A warm pink mounted to the girl's cheek, mantled her brow to the roots of her fair braids, and suffused the young slope of her breast.
1979 M. Stewart Last Enchantment (BNC) 304 I turned aside to hide the joy that I could feel mantling my cheeks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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