1. (n.)mantle a long, loose, capelike garment; sleeveless cloak.
2. mantle something that covers, envelops, or conceals: the mantle of darkness.
3. mantle the portion of the earth, about 1800 mi. (2900 km) thick, between the crust and the core.
4. mantle an outgrowth of the bodywall in mollusks and brachiopods that lines the inner surface of the shell valves and secretes a shell-forming substance.
5. mantle an incombustible hood that becomes incandescent and gives off a brilliant light when placed around a flame.
6. mantle the back, scapular, and inner wingplumage of a bird.
7. (v.t.)mantle to cover with or as if with a mantle; envelop; conceal.
4. (noun)blanket, mantle anything that covers "there was a blanket of snow"
5. (noun)mantle, pallium (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
6. (noun)mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece shelf that projects from wallabovefireplace "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece"
7. (noun)curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall hangingcloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
8. (verb)cape, mantle a sleeveless garmentlike a cloak but shorter
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