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▪ I. mantle, n.|ˈmænt(ə)l|
Forms: 1–5 mentel, 2–7 mantel, 3–6 mantil, 4 mantal, -tyle, mentil(e, 4–5 mantyl, 4–6 mantell, mantill, 5 mantyll(e, mauntil, 5–6 mantelle, 6 mauntelle, mantyll, 7 mandle, 3, 5– mantle. See also manteau, mantua.
[Introduced from two sources. (1) OE. męntel masc.:—prehistoric *mantilo-z, ad. (after the native suffix -ilo-: see -el) L. mantellum, mantēlum cloak, whence also OFris. mentel, OHG. mantal, -dal (MHG. mantel, mandel, mod.G. mantel), ON. mǫttull (OSw. mantol, mantul, mod.Sw., Da. mantel), MIrish matal. (2) In the 12th c. the word was taken up again in the OFr. form mantel (mod.F. manteau: see manteau); cf. Pr. mantel cloak, It. mantello cloak. A special group of senses taken from the Fr. is now distinguished by the spelling mantel.
According to most philologists, the L. mantellum cloak is more correctly written mantēlum, and is etymologically identical with mantēlum, mantēlium, mantīlium, mantēle, mantīle table-cloth, towel. (Cf. Sp. manteles pl., table-linen; also manteel.) On this supposition, the word must have been mistaken for a dim., and so have given rise by back-formation to the late L. mantum (7th c.), *manta, whence Sp., Pg., It. manto, manta, F. mante, and the diminutives Sp. mantilla (see mantilla), Pg. mantilha, It. mantiglia.]
1. a. A loose sleeveless cloak of varying length.
The name was applied indifferently to the outer covering of men, women, and children, and at times acquired a specific application to one garment or another. Now its use is restricted to a cloak of silk or fine cloth worn by ladies; to the robe of state worn by kings, princes, and other persons of exalted and defined station; and to an infant's outer robe.
c897K. Alfred Gregory's Past. C. xxviii. 197 He..forcearf his mentles ænne læppan. a1000Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 210/26 Colobium,..mentel. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Þe meshakele of medeme fustane and hire mentel grene oðer burnet. c1200Vices & Virtues 127 Se þe benimð ðe þine kiertel, ȝif him þine mantel. c1205Lay. 14755 He nom ænne spere-scæft..& dude a þene ænde ænne mantel hende. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2033 Ðis mentel ic wið-held for-ði, To tawnen [ðe] ðe soðe her-bi. a1300Cursor M. 16619 Þai clede him wit a mantel rede. c1380Sir Ferumb. 1242 Vnder hur mantel sche hidde þe staf. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 267 And next vnto hym..Sate the goddese Diana, in a mantell fyne. 1505in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1901) III. 168 Item, for ane mantill to Johne, fule, of Abirdene, ixs. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 143 As she fled, her mantle she did fall. 1613― Hen. VIII, v. v. Stage-direct., The Childe richly habited in a Mantle. 1700Dryden Flower & Leaf 348 Attired in mantles all the knights were seen. 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Mantle,..also the upper-most Garment that Nurses wrap up young Infants in before they coat 'em. 1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 302 Fools, indeed, drop the man in their account, And vote the mantle into majesty. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 196 A mantle about four feet square, formed of strips of rabbit skins. 1904Home Notes 28 July 181 The summer mantle is always a difficult garment to find.
b. Applied (often with qualification Irish mantle) to a kind of blanket or plaid worn until the 17th c. by the rustic Irish, often as their only covering.
c1470Henry Wallace i. 217 Ane Ersche mantill it war thi kynd to wer. 1582Rates Custome Ho. F v b, Mantels called Irish mantles the pair. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 631 The out-lawe..wandring in wast places..maketh his mantell his howse. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 232/2 A Brackin, or Irish Mantle.
c. Used allusively with reference to the descent of Elijah's mantle (2 Kings ii. 13).
1789Belsham Ess. I. xii. 229 The sacred mantle which descended from Shakespeare to Milton. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. (1875) 183 On Heine..incomparably the largest portion of Goethe's mantle fell.
†d. to take the mantle and the ring: a symbolical act used to express the taking of a vow of chastity (properly, by a widow). Obs.
1424in E.E. Wills (1882) 60 If she take þe mantel and þe rynge, and avowe chastite. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 34 She wol perhappous maken hir avowe, That she wol take the mantle and the ryng. 1574J. Studley tr. Bale's Pageant Popes To Rdr., How can that foundation stand which is made of Popes miters, Cardinals hats,..rotchets, chrismes, mantel & the ringe [etc.].
†e. Apostle's mantle: the kind of mantle which the Apostles were commonly depicted as wearing. Obs.
[1496Dives & Paup. 1st Comm. vii. (W. de W.) b j b, The apostles comonly..ben paynted with manteles..and a mantele is a louse clothynge not faste to the bodye but louse.] a1586Sidney Arcadia v. (1598) 447 A long cloake after the fashion of that which we call the Apostles mantle.
† f. white mantles (= ordo alborum mantellorum: see Du Cange): the Teutonic Order. Obs.
c1500Melusine 20 [He] toke on hym the ordre & Religion of the whit mantelles.
g. Her. = mantling vbl. n. 2.
1577Harrison England ii. v. (1877) i. 120 The crest with mantels to the helme belonging. 1815Scott Guy M. xlii, The mantle upon the panels [of Mr. Glossin's coach] only bore a plain cipher of G. G. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xiv. 170 Two or more shields may be grouped together by placing them upon a mantle of crimson velvet.
2. transf. and fig. Something that enfolds, enwraps or encloses; a covering.
a. of immaterial things.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 554 Night with his Mantel þat is derk and rude Gan ouersprede the Hemysperie aboute. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 9 With a mantelle of prudens clad thou be. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 78 To be hyd vnder y⊇ mantell of mekenes. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. ii. 22 Well couer'd with the Nights black Mantle. 1659Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 607 We have cast a mantle on what was done last Parliament. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 609 The Moon..unvaild her peerless light And o're the dark her Silver Mantle threw. 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 386 How is night's sable mantle labour'd o'er. 1817Chalmers Astron. Disc. vi. (1852) 132 A mantle of deep obscurity rests on the government of God.
b. of material things. Cf. sense 11.
c1470Henry Wallace ix. 23 Fresch Flora hir floury mantill spreid. 1593Drayton Eclogues x. 5 The Groves..In mossie Mantles sadly seem'd to mourne. 1829Scott Anne of G. iii, Ruins, over which vegetation had thrown a wild mantle of ivy. 1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. xxxvi. 484 The elliptical shaped mass of the Wren's nest is..composed of an exterior mantle of pure and impure limestone. 1859Tennyson Merlin & V. 105 [She] drew The vast and shaggy mantle of his beard Across her neck and bosom to her knee. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 189 The ejected matter has fallen..in conical layers, each forming a mantle thrown irregularly over the preceding layer. 1949A. G. Tansley (title) Britain's green mantle. 1962Listener 1 Mar. 376/1 Since..the upper part of the atmospheric mantle is rich in carbon dioxide, advanced life-forms on the surface of Venus seem unlikely.
†c. spec. The foam that covers the surface of liquor; the green vegetable coating on standing water. (Cf. mantle v. 4.) Obs.
1601Holland Pliny I. 426 The flower or mantle which the wine casteth up to the top [L. flos vini]. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 139 Poore Tom, that..drinkes the green Mantle of the standing Poole.
†3. A kind of woollen cloth; a blanket of this material. Chiefly with qualification, e.g. Paris mantle. Obs.
[1410Rolls of Parlt. III. 637/2 Les Worstedes appellez mantelles sengles, demy doubles, & doubles.] 1485Waterf. Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 318 [They] shal syll no manere fryse, nor mantill to no manere foreyne. 1538Elyot Dict., Gausape, a mantell to caste on a bedde. 1545Rates Custome Ho. c ij b, Paris mantyls the pece. 1582Ibid. A v, Blankets called Paris mantles, red or coloured the peece xiii.s. iiiid. Blankets called Paris Mantles, white the peece x.s.
†4. A measure of quantity of furs, containing from 30 to 100 skins according to size. Obs.
‘In that work [Halyburton's Ledger] the words Mantil and pane, though not identical in meaning, are used to denote the same number of skins’ (Jam. Suppl.).
1473in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1877) I. 15 Item coft fra Will Sinclare v mantill of banes to lyne a syde gowne to the King. 1490Ibid. 190 Item..for iij mantillis of fwnȝeis. 1545Rates Custome Ho. b ij b, Foxe skynnes the pane or mantel vi.s. viii.d... Fytcheues the pane or mantell v.s. Ibid. d j, White kydes the mantell ij.s. 1662Irish Act 14 & 15 Chas. II, c. 8 (Rates Inwards), Furs vocat. Foxes the pain or mantle 15s.
5. Mech. A covering, envelope or shade employed in various mechanical contrivances.
a. A linen or other cloth employed in the swarming of bees.
b. The leather hood of an open carriage.
c. (See quot.)
d. Founding. A porous clay matrix.
e. Building. The outer covering of a wall, of a different material from its inner portion (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
f. The outer wall and casing of an iron blast furnace, above the hearth (Raymond Mining Gloss.).
g. A tubular wick or hood made by saturating cotton net or other fabric with various oxides, and then removing the fibre by burning, leaving a fragile lace-like tube which, fixed around a burning gas jet, becomes incandescent and emits a brilliant light.
a.1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. v. (1623) M j, Your Hiue being fitted and dressed..you must haue also in a readinesse a Mantle, a Rest, and a Brush. The Mantle may be a sheet, or halfe-sheet, or other linnen cloth, an ell square at the least. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 274 Bring them [the swarms] together, shaking the Bees out of one Hive on the Mantle whereon the other Hive stands.
b.1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 197 The mantle, of which there are various shapes, is introduced only as an ornament. When mantles are much furled [etc.].
c.1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1385/1 Mantle, an inclosed chute which leads the water from a fore-bay to a water-wheel.
d.1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1385/1 The mantle and pattern are baked, the wax runs off [etc.].
g.1887Pall Mall G. 18 Mar. 12/1 His [Welsbach's] invention consists in fixing around the flame of a special form of gas burner a tubular wick or hood of open cotton fabric, termed the mantle.
6. Zool. The external fold of skin which in most molluscs encloses the viscera. Applied also to similar sacs or integuments, as the tunic of an ascidian. (Cf. pallium 3 b and cloak 4.)
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 625 Þe whelke looke þat..his pyntill & gutt almond & mantille, awey þer fro ye pitt. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 7 Cephalopoda.—Lower part of the body contained in a bag-shaped mantle. 1855W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. 419 The animals forming one of these colonies [compound Tunicata] are usually united by their mantles. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §45 An Ascidian consists..of an external membranous bag or ‘mantle’, within which is a Muscular envelope.
7. Anat. (a) The name given by Reichert to the covering portion of the hemisphere-vesicle in the brain. (b) The Panniculus carnosus, a layer of fatty subcutaneous membrane connecting the true skin with the subjacent tissue.
1885in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1889in Syd. Soc. Lex.
8. Bot.
†a. = ocrea (obs.).
b. The growing cortical covering of the periblem, or primary cortex in a growing point.
1671–82Grew Anat. Plants i. iv. §17 (1682) 32 Where none of all the Protections above-named are convenient, then the Membranes of the Leaves by continuation in their first forming..are drawn out into so many Mantles or Veils; as in Docks, Snakeweed, etc. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 13 Each one of the inner layers..of this mantle has its initial group above the apex of the plerome.
9. Ornith. The plumage of the back and folded wings when distinct in colour, etc. from the rest. (So F. manteau.)
1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 263 The Barnacle Goose..with a grey mantle. 1894R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. I. 90 Sandy rufous, broadly streaked with black, except on the mantle.
10. = mantling vbl. n. 5 b. rare.
1897Blackmore Dariel xii. 111 ‘Young Earls!’ exclaimed Grace, with an innocence so pure that it required a little mantle on her cheeks.
11. One of the three major layers composing the earth, extending from the bottom of the crust (at a depth of about 30 km.) for about 2,900 km. to the boundary with the region beneath (the core), and differing from the crust and the core in physical properties (esp. density) and in chemical composition.
Orig. not distinguished from the crust (see quots. 1940, 1955).
1940R. A. Daly Strength & Struct. Earth i. 1 The earth contains a spheroidal core... The rest of the planet, beneath ocean and atmosphere,..may be distinguished as a whole by the name ‘mantle’. Ibid. 21 At the depth of about 2,900 kilometers..there is..an interface or rapid transition between the earth's silicate mantle and its ‘iron’ core. 1955Sci. Amer. Sept. 58/3 All the earth outside the core is called the mantle. The whole of the mantle (apart from the oceans and pockets of magma in volcanic regions) is now known to be essentially solid. 1958Nature 13 Sept. 692/1 The Mohorovičić discontinuity is the boundary between the mantle and the assorted surface rocks of the earth, and it marks a very sharp change in the velocity with which earthquake waves travel. 1962Listener 30 Aug. 304/1 Geophysicists are preparing to drill a hole six kilometres deep through the earth's crust to the mantle. 1969New Yorker 12 Apr. 96/2 If the structure of the moon proves to be similar to the earth's—that is, to have a core, a mantle, and a crust—then geologists may be able to learn a good deal about the structure of the earth. 1973Sci. Amer. Apr. 24/2 Outside the liquid outer core is a mantle of solid rock some 2,900 kilometers thick, which approaches to within 40 kilometers of the earth's surface under the continents and to within 10 kilometers under the oceans. The thin rocky skin surrounding the mantle is the earth's crust. No drill has penetrated the earth's crust deeper than a few kilometers.
12. attrib. and Comb.:
a. (sense 1) as mantle-button, mantle-cutter, mantle-fold, † mantle lace, † mantle lap, mantle maker, mantle veil, mantle worker; also mantle-making n. (whence by back-formation mantle-make vb.), mantle-like adj., mantle-wise adv.; mantle-cavity, the space between the mantle (sense 6) and the body of a mollusc or brachiopod; mantle fibre Cytology, any spindle fibre which is attached to a chromosome; mantle-knot, an ornament in the form of a clasp, composed of a number of precious stones [cf. F. nœud de diamants]; † mantle-wind, the wind produced by a winnowing-sheet.
1681in Thanes of Cawdor (Spald. Club) 354, 7 duz. *mandle buttounis {pstlg}2, 2s.
1853Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CXLIII. 37 It [sc. the heart] lies parallel to the rectum, with the auricle forwards at the base of the *mantle-cavity. 1958New Biol. XXV. 100 The visceral mass (of Cuttlefish) is closed all round by a muscular mantle in such a way that below and to the sides of it there is a cavity—the mantle cavity.
1884B'ham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/5 *Mantle-cutter.—Wanted a superior Cutter and Fitter.
1896E. B. Wilson Cell ii. 74 The daughter-chromosomes are dragged apart solely by the contractile *mantle-fibres, the central spindle-fibres being non-contractile. 1920L. Doncaster Introd. Study Cytol. iii. 31 In some animals these fibres are said to be of different thickness, those attached to chromosomes being thicker and called ‘mantle fibres’ (from their appearance at a later stage). 1966D. M. Kramsch tr. Grundmann's Gen. Cytol. iii. 149 We are dealing with a central spindle, on whose exterior aspect the chromosomal spindle fibres are attached as mantle fibres.
1814Scott Ld. of Isles ii. xi, Whence the brooch of burning gold, That clasps the Chieftain's *mantle-fold.
1896Star 3 Oct. 2/4 A splendid collection of diamonds..is to be sold... The collection includes two *mantle-knots which belonged to the Empress Eugénie.
1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 136 *Mantell lace of blue silk.
c1350St. Mary Magd. 573 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 87 It [a child] lurked vnder þe *mantill lapp.
1888Fagge & Pye-Smith Princ. Med. (ed. 2) I. 81 An almost fibrous *mantle-like sheath.
1885C. L. Pirkis Lady Lovelace I. xviii. 268 The invitation of a large Paris firm to go across the Channel and *mantle-make for English customers.
1552Huloet, *Mantle-maker, braccarius.
1903Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 8/5 Girls wanted..to learn dress and *mantle making.
1879E. Waterton Pietas mariana 89 The *mantle-veil of our Ladye at Chartres. 1688*Mantle Wind [see mantle v. 8].
c1530Crt. of Love 243 In sondry clothing, *mantil-wyse full wyde, They were arrayed. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 225 They weare certeine ornaments of embrodered linnen cast mantle-wise about their shoulders. 1862G. P. Scrope Volcanos (ed. 2) 170 The greater part..spread themselves mantlewise over its surface and slopes.
b. (sense 2 b) as mantle-rock Geol., a superficial deposit.
1895J. W. Powell in Physiogr. Processes (Nat. Geogr. Monographs I. No. 1. 14) The materials may be called *mantle rocks or superficial deposits.
c. (sense 6) as mantle border, mantle fin, mantle flap, mantle fold, mantle fringe, mantle lobe, mantle margin, mantle sac; mantle-breathers, the Palliobranchiata or Brachiopoda; mantle-breathing a., palliobranchiate.
1837Penny Cycl. VII. 96/2 *Mantle-border smooth, but with tufts of hair at the lateral extremities of each plate.
1881Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 258 De Blainville's subsequently proposed title of ‘*mantle-breathers’.
Ibid., The Brachiopoda, or *mantle-breathing bivalves.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 523/1 Octopods..characterized by the absence of *mantle-fins.
1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 322 As development goes on, the *mantle-fold becomes less intimately connected with the body.
1855W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 430 The *mantle lobes are free all round.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 533/1 The *mantle-sac is almost wholly filled with the viscera.
▪ II. mantle, v.|ˈmænt(ə)l|
[f. mantle n. Cf. OF. manteler; also mantel v.]
1. trans. To clothe or wrap in or as in a mantle. Also with up, over.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 2312 Wharefore thay mantlid hym in swylk coloure for scorne. 1600Fairfax Tasso xv. lxi, And her faire lockes..she gan at large vnfold; Which falling long and thicke, and spreading wide, The iuorie soft and white, mantled in gold. 1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 25 Canina lookes to them [infants] in their swathing bands, whilst they are bound up and mantled. 1685Bunyan Pharisee & Publican 18 He came into the Temple mantled up in his own good things. 1813Scott Rokeby i. vi, The buff-coat, in ample fold Mantles his form's gigantic mould. 1881M. Arnold Westm. Abbey x, The mourning-stole no more Mantled her form. 1883Cath. Dict. 84/1 The priest, mantled with the veil, makes the sign of the cross.
b. By Milton used of wings. Also absol.
1667Milton P.L. v. 279 The pair [of wings] that clad Each shoulder broad, came mantling o're his brest With regal Ornament. Ibid. vii. 439 The Swan with Arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, Rowes Her state with Oarie feet.
2. transf. and fig. To cover or conceal; to obscure; to enfold, embrace, encircle or surround; to envelop; † to ‘cloak’, palliate (a fault).
c1400Apol. Loll. 104 Þei lifen worldly, & hidun þer vicis wiþ a veyn hiȝt of better lif, & mantel it wiþ a name of ymaginid religioun. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cxxii. (1869) 121 It was maad..for to mantelle with my defautes and consele myne vnthriftes. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 68 A frown that was able to mantle the world with an eternall night. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 67 Their rising sences Begin to chace the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. 1650T. Vaughan Anthroposophia 15 The Earth was so overcast, and Mantl'd with the Water, that no part thereof was to be seen. 1692tr. Sallust 303 (Orat. Lepidi) Prosperity wonderfully obscures and mantles Vice. 1743J. Davidson æneid viii. 247 Night..with her dusky wings mantles the sky. 1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 60 Its venerable trunk is richly mantled with ivy. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 275 A film comes over the eyes, and the brain is, as it were, mantled over. 1890Daily News 31 Jan. 5/5 The mountains thus brilliantly mantled and capped with snow.
absol.1586Warner Alb. Eng. ii. xi. (1612) 49 The cloudes that mantling ride vpon the racking skie.
3. Falconry. refl. and intr. To spread first one wing and then the other over the corresponding outstretched leg for exercise, as a perched hawk does. Obs. exc. Hist.
1486Bk. St. Albans a vj b, She mantellith and not stretchith whan she puttith her leges from hir oon after an other: and hir wynges folow after hier legges then she dooth mantill hir. c1575Perf. Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (Harting, 1886) 10 Let her styre, rouse, mantle, or warbile a while. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. ii. 32 Ne is ther hauke which mantleth her on pearch,..But I the measure of her flight doe search. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xx. (1660) 223 She [a hawk] mantleth [etc.]. 1852R. F. Burton Falconry Valley Indus iii. 32 The Shikrah, who was quietly ‘mantling’ upon a clear branch in a nice sunny place.
fig.1595Spenser Sonn. lxxii, There my fraile fancy, fed with full delight, Doth bath in blisse, and mantleth most at Ease.
¶b. transf. Of a horse: To bridle.
1664Cotton Scarron. i. 79 Mantling like Mare in Martingale, She thus reply'd.
4. intr. Of liquids: To be or become covered with a coating or scum; to form a sparkling ‘head’ or froth; to cream.
1626Bacon Sylva §46 It drinketh fresh, flowreth and mantleth excedingly. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 53 The Bran of Wheat, a little thereof boiled in our ordinary Beer, maketh it Mantle, or Flower in the Cup when it is poured out. 1707–12Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 333 Your Cyder will acquire a fine briskness, and mantle in the Glass. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 378 The poison mantled in the golden bowl. 1822Shelley Triumph Life 359 In her right hand she bore a crystal glass, Mantling with bright Nepenthe. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion ii. iii. 73 As the remnant-wine in cup Fast shall fill and mantle up.
b. transf. and fig.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. i. 89 There are a sort of men, whose visages Do creame and mantle like a standing pond. 1809Campbell O'Connor's Child xiv, The green oblivious flood That mantles by your walls. 1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 115 Health floats amid the gentle atmosphere, Glows in the fruits, and mantles on the stream. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. (1873) 55 A golden Chalice standing by,—What mantles there, is life or death.
†c. ? fig. To ‘bubble’ with desire. (Cf. mantling ppl. a. 3.) Obs.
1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 162 When Daphnis saw it, he mantled to be at it.
5. Of the blood: To suffuse the cheeks with a blush. Said also of a blush, etc. (rarely trans.). Of the face: To be suffused with glowing colour, to flush.
1707[see mantling ppl. a. 4]. 1766Goldsm. Hermit xxii, Surpriz'd he sees new beauties rise, Swift mantling to the view. 1808Scott Marm. iii. xvii, The blood that mantles in her cheeks. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. ii. iv. (1820) 118 The rosy blush of morn began to mantle in the east. 1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 37 Such joy as when a lover..Sees her unfaded cheek Glow mantling in first luxury of health. 1870Disraeli Lothair ix, Her rich face mantling with emotion. 1884Punch 16 Feb. 76/2 With downcast eyes and faint blush mantling his thoughtful brow.
6. intr. To form a mantle or covering; to spread or be extended over a surface.
1634–1770 [see mantling ppl. a. 2]. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xix, And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care. 1812Combe Picturesque xix. (Chandos) 71 The vine mantling on the thatch. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 342 As countless beds of sand and scoriæ constitute the greater part of the whole mass, these may sometimes mantle continuously round the whole cone.
7. dial. (See quots.)
1674–91Ray N.C. Words 46 To Mantle, kindly to embrace. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Mantle, to embrace kindly.
†8. (See quot.) Obs.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 74/1 Mantling, or Mantle Wind, is to make Wind with a Winnow sheet, or course cloth held by two persons.
9. trans. In alum manufacture: To cover (an incandescent heap of alum ore) with a coating of ashes in order to shelter it from the weather.
1879Spon's Encycl. Arts, Manuf., etc. I. 327.
▪ III. mantle
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