Definition of Mantle

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Mantle

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

Same as Mantling.

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.

Any free, outer membrane.

The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

A mantel. See Mantel.

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

A penstock for a water wheel.

To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

To spread out; -- said of wings.

To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

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Mantle Quotations

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Henri Frederic Amiel

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
Sheryl Crow

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.
James Young

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
Ernestine Rose

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
Ron Reagan

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.
Marlee Matlin

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
Michael Shermer

I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.
Sandy Koufax

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!
Swoosie Kurtz

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
Bert Campaneris

Mantle Translations

mantle in Dutch is mantel, jas
mantle in Finnish is takki
mantle in French is manteau
mantle in Italian is velare
mantle in Latin is pallium
mantle in Spanish is embozar, abrigo
mantle in Swedish is mantel, kappa

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