Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word MANTLE

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Definitions of MANTLE

1. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
2. A penstock for a water wheel.
3. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
4. To climb over or onto something.
5. Alternative spelling of mantel ("shelf above fireplace").
6. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. [from 9th c.]
7. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
8. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
9. (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. [from 15th c.]
10. (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
11. 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.) [from 19th c.]
12. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
13. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
14. (heraldry) A mantling.
15. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
16. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
17. (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
18. (falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
19. (falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.
20. A surname.

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