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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mantel \Man"tel\, n. [The same word as mantle a garment; cf. F. manteau de chemin['e]e. See {Mantle}.] (Arch.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. The shelf is called also a {mantelpiece} or {mantlepiece}. [Written also {mantle}.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: mantle \man"tle\, n. [OE. mantel, OF. mantel, F. manteau, fr. L. mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela cloth. See {Manual}, {Textile}, and cf. {Mandil}, {Mantel}, {Mantilla}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. [1913 Webster] [The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] The green mantle of the standing pool. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. --Burns. [1913 Webster] 2. (Her.) Same as {Mantling}. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zool.) (a) 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}. (b) Any free, outer membrane. (c) The back of a bird together with the folded wings. [1913 Webster] 4. (Arch.) A mantel. See {Mantel}. [1913 Webster] 5. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. --Raymond. [1913 Webster] 6. (Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel. [1913 Webster] 7. (Geol.) 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. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mantle \Man"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mantled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mantling}.] To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mantle \Man"tle\, v. i. 1. To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively. [1913 Webster] Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. To spread out; -- said of wings. [1913 Webster] The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool. [1913 Webster] Though mantled in her cheek the blood. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 4. To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc. [1913 Webster] There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: mantle n 1: the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders" 2: United States baseball player (1931-1997) [syn: {Mantle}, {Mickey Mantle}, {Mickey Charles Mantle}] 3: the layer of the earth between the crust and the core 4: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn: {blanket}, {mantle}] 5: (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell [syn: {mantle}, {pallium}] 6: shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece" [syn: {mantel}, {mantelpiece}, {mantle}, {mantlepiece}, {chimneypiece}] 7: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: {curtain}, {drape}, {drapery}, {mantle}, {pall}] 8: a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter [syn: {cape}, {mantle}] v 1: spread over a surface, like a mantle 2: cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building"