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man·tle I. \ˈmantəl, -aan-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English mantel, mentel; partly from Old English mentel; partly from Old French mantel; both from Latin mantellum 1. a. : a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : an enveloping robe or cloak < brought a heavy mantle and covered her from head to foot — William Black > b. : a mantle regarded as a symbol of preeminence or authority < take off the mantle of authority and drop it on younger shoulders — H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker > 2. a. : something that covers, enfolds, or envelops < the green mantle of the standing pool — Shakespeare > < the mantle of night made it easier for them to forget their youth — T.B.Costain > b. (1) : the fold or lobe or pair of lobes of the body wall in a mollusk or brachiopod lining the shell in shell-bearing forms, bearing the shell-secreting glands, and usually forming a cavity between itself and the body proper that holds the respiratory organs (2) : the soft external body wall that lines the test or the shell of a tunicate or barnacle c. : the outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth d. : cerebral cortex 3. : mantling 4. : the back, scapulars, and wings of a bird when distinguished from other parts of the plumage by a distinct and uniform color (as in some gulls) 5. : a penstock for a waterwheel 6. a. : the external layers of meristematic cells in a stem apex often equivalent to the combined tunica and corpus b. : the fungal network around an ectotrophic mycorhiza that replaces the root hairs as an absorbing system 7. a. : a lacelike hood or sheath of some refractory material that gives light by incandescence when placed over a flame b. : a thin zone at the border of a flame c. : heating mantle 8. a. : mantlerock b. : the part of the earth's interior beneath the lithosphere and above the central core from which it is separated by a discontinuity at a depth of about 1800 miles 9. : mantel II. verb (mantled ; mantled ; mantling \-t(ə)liŋ\ ; mantles) Etymology: Middle English mantellen, from mantel, n. transitive verb 1. : to conceal by covering : make obscure < its venerable trunk is richly mantled with ivy — J.G.Strutt > 2. : to cover with or as if with a mantle < the land is mantled with glacial deposits — W.W.Atwood b.1906 > 3. : to cause to blush : give a glowing color to intransitive verb 1. a. of a hawk : to spread one wing and then the other over the corresponding outstretched leg b. obsolete : to spread out — used of wings 2. : to become covered with a coating (as of scum or froth) < the poison mantled in the cup — Alexander Pope > 3. : to spread over a surface < seldom o'er a breast so fair mantled a plaid with modest care — Sir Walter Scott > 4. : blush, color < her rich face mantling with emotion — Benjamin Disraeli > |