mantle

Plural: mantles

Noun

• the cloak as a symbol of authority
  • "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"
• United States baseball player (1931-1997)
• the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
• anything that covers
• (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
• shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
• hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
• a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
• A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
• A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
• Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
• The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
• The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
• The zone of hot gases around a flame.
• A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
• The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
• A penstock for a water wheel.
• The cerebral cortex.
• The layer between Earth's core and crust.
• Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
• A mantling.

Verb

Verb Forms: mantled, mantling, mantles

• To cover, cloak, or envelop with something.
• spread over a surface, like a mantle
• cover like a mantle
  • "The ivy mantles the building"
• To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
• To become covered or concealed.
• To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
• To climb over or onto something.
• The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
• The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.

Examples

• At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
• He tried to MANTLE his weak hand with a bluff, but his opponent saw through it.
• The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

Synonyms

blanket, cape, chimneypiece, curtain, drape, drapery, mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiece, Mickey Charles Mantle, Mickey Mantle, pall, pallium

Anagrams of mantle