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Mantle 1Definition: A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
Mantle 2Definition: Same as Mantling. Mantle 3Definition: 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 4Definition: Any free, outer membrane. Mantle 5Definition: The back of a bird together with the folded wings. Mantle 6Definition: A mantel. See Mantel. Mantle 7Definition: The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. Mantle 8Definition: A penstock for a water wheel. Mantle 9Definition: To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise. Mantle 10Definition: To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; said of hawks. Also used figuratively. Mantle 11Definition: To spread out; said of wings. Mantle 12Definition: To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool. Mantle 13Definition: To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc. mantle 14Definition: a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter mantle 15Definition: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) mantle 16Definition: shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in England they call a mantel a chimneypiece" mantle 17Definition: (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell mantle 18Definition: the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders" mantle 19Definition: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" mantle 20Definition: the layer of the earth between the crust and the core Mantle 21Definition: United States baseball player mantle 22Definition: cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building" mantle 23Definition: spread over a surface, like a mantle
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