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Mantle 1

Definition: A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

Mantle 2

Definition: Same as Mantling.

Mantle 3

Definition: 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.

Mantle 4

Definition: Any free, outer membrane.

Mantle 5

Definition: The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

Mantle 6

Definition: A mantel. See Mantel.

Mantle 7

Definition: The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Mantle 8

Definition: A penstock for a water wheel.

Mantle 9

Definition: To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.

Mantle 10

Definition: To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

Mantle 11

Definition: To spread out; said of wings.

Mantle 12

Definition: To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

Mantle 13

Definition: To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

mantle 14

Definition: a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

mantle 15

Definition: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

mantle 16

Definition: shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in England they call a mantel a chimneypiece"

mantle 17

Definition: (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

mantle 18

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

mantle 19

Definition: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow"

mantle 20

Definition: the layer of the earth between the crust and the core

Mantle 21

Definition: United States baseball player

mantle 22

Definition: cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building"

mantle 23

Definition: spread over a surface, like a mantle

 

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