mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.təl/
rhymes: -æntəl
homophone: mantel
Forms: form: mantles
form: mantling
form: mantled
form: mantled
Etymology: From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.
Senses: examples: text: As the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness; so their rising senses Begin to chace the ign'rant fumes, that mantle Their clearer reason.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: I left them I' th' filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to th' chins.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: All beneath the pinkish sky from the wildfires / Which mantle the horizon line
ref: 2019, Vansire, “Metamodernity”, in Metamodernity:
glosses: To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
glosses: To become covered or concealed.
examples: text: […]—that the richest people in the world have the hardest hearts in it, and refuse to help their fellow-creatures, save through the medium of ostentation, and in return for value received?—that the highest and oldest nobility in Europe—the purest blood which ever mantled in the lovely cheek of virgin woman—is regularly exhibited in large bodies, under the protection of British matrons, policemen, and constables, at half-a-crown a head?
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 171:
text: […] and then that coffee! what fragrance it diffused through the room — how the foaming hot cream mantled over it, making discovered country from whose bourne no Master Philip's teeth water, […]
ref: 1847, The Mirror Monthly Magazine, page 259:
text: The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: “Yes,” he answered, with bowed head, his face mantling with the flush of shame.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 183:
glosses: To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
glosses: To climb over or onto something.
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glosses: The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
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glosses: The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.