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   Mantel , n. [The same word as mantle a garment; cf. F. manteau de cheminée. 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.]
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   mantle , 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.]
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   A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak.  Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
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   [The] children are clothed with mantles of satin.
   Bacon.
   
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   The green mantle of the standing pool.
   Shak.
   
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   Now Nature hangs her mantle green
   On every blooming tree.
   Burns.
   
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   (Her.) Same as Mantling.
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   (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.
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   (Arch.) A mantel. See Mantel.
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   The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
   Raymond.
   
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   (Hydraulic Engin.) A penstock for a water wheel.
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   (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.
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   Mantle, 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.
   
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   Mantle, v. i.
   To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
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   Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch.
   Spenser.
   
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   Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew.
   Bp. Hall.
   
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   My frail fancy fed with full delight.
   Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.
   Spenser.
   
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   To spread out; -- said of wings.
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   The swan, with arched neck
   Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows.
   Milton.
   
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   To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
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   Though mantled in her cheek the blood.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
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   There is a sort of men whose visages
   Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.
   Shak.
   
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   Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.
   Tennyson.
   
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