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mantle |
6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. [Written also {mantle}.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. [The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. --Bacon. The green mantle of the standing pool. --Shak. Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. --Burns. 2. (Her.) Same as {Mantling}. 3. (Zo["o]l.) 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. 4. (Arch.) A mantel. See {Mantel}. 5. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth. --Raymond. 6. (Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mantle \Man"tle\, v. i. 1. To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively. Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch. --Spenser. Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. --Bp. Hall. My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. --Spenser. 2. To spread out -- said of wings. The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows. --Milton. 3. To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as the scum mantled on the pool. Though mantled in her cheek the blood. --Sir W. Scott. 4. To gather, assume, or take on a covering, as froth, scum, etc There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. --Shak. Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mantle n 1: the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders" 2: the layer of the earth between the crust and the core 3: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn: {blanket}] 4: (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell [syn: {pallium}] 5: projects from wall above fireplace; "in England they call a mantel a chimneypiece" [syn: {mantel}, {mantelpiece}, {mantlepiece}, {chimneypiece}] 6: hanging cloth used as a blind [syn: {curtain}, {drape}, {drapery}, {pall}] 7: a sleeveless garment like cloak but shorter [syn: {cape}] v 1: spread over a surface, like a mantle 2: cover like a mantle: "The ivy mantles the building" From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Mantle (1.) Heb. 'addereth, a large over-garment. This word is used of Elijah's mantle (1 Kings 19:13, 19; 2 Kings 2:8, 13, etc.), which was probably a sheepskin. It appears to have been his only garment, a strip of skin or leather binding it to his loins. _'Addereth_ twice occurs with the epithet hairy" (Gen. 25:25; Zech. 13:4, R.V.). It is the word denoting the "goodly Babylonish garment" which Achan coveted (Josh. 7:21). (2.) Heb. me'il, frequently applied to the "robe of the ephod" (Ex. 28:4, 31; Lev. 8:7), which was a splendid under tunic wholly of blue, reaching to below the knees. It was woven without seam, and was put on by being drawn over the head. It was worn not only by priests but by kings (1 Sam. 24:4), prophets (15:27), and rich men (Job 1:20; 2:12). This was the "little coat" which Samuel's mother brought to him from year to year to Shiloh (1 Sam. 2:19), a miniature of the official priestly robe. (3.) Semikah "a rug," the garment which Jael threw as a covering over Sisera (Judg. 4:18). The Hebrew word occurs nowhere else in Scripture. (4.) Maataphoth plural, only in Isa. 3:22, denoting a large exterior tunic worn by females. (See {DRESS}.)
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