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Mantle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A kind of cloke or loose garment to be worn over other garments.

2. The herald and children are clothed with mantles of satin.

3. A cover.

4. Well covered with the night's black mantle

5. A cover; that which conceals; as the mantle of charity.

Mantle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To expand; to spread.

2. The swan with arched neck

3. Between her white wings mantling, rows

4. Her state with oary feet.

5. To joy; to revel.

6. My frail fancy, fed with full delights,

7. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

8. To be expanded; to be spread or extended.

9. He gave the mantling vine to grow,

10. A trophy to his love.

11. To gather over and form a cover; to collect on the surface, as a covering.

12. There is a sort of men, whose visages

13. Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.

14. And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.

15. To rush to the face and cover it with a crimson color.

16. When mantling blood

17. Flow'd in his lovely cheeks.

18. [Fermentation cannot be deduced from mangling, otherwise than as a secondary sense.]

Mantle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cloke; to cover; to disguise.

2. So the rising senses

3. Begin to chase th'ignorant fumes, that mantle

4. Their clearer reason.

Mantle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Same as Mantling.

3. 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.

4. Any free, outer membrane.

5. The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

6. A mantel. See Mantel.

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

8. A penstock for a water wheel.

Mantle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. To spread out; -- said of wings.

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

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

Mantle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Mantle-piece [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. MAN'TLE-PIECE

2. MAN'TLE-SHELF, noun The work over a fire-place, in front of the chimney.

Mantle-tree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The piece of timber or stone in front of a chimney, over the fire-place, resting on the jambs.

2. [This word, according to Johnson, signifies the work over the fire-place, which we call a mantle-piece.]

Mantled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Mantle

Mantlet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small cloke worn by women.

2. In fortification, a kind of movable parapet or penthouse, made of planks, nailed one over another to the highth of almost six feet, cased with tin and set on wheels. In a siege, this is driven before pioneers, to protect them from the enemy's small shot.

Mantlet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Mantelet.

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Judges 4:18

And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

1 Samuel 15:27

And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed the hem of his robe, and it tore.

1 Samuel 28:14

And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

“What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence.

1 Kings 19:13

And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

1 Kings 19:19

So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.

2 Kings 2:8

And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.

And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

2 Kings 2:13

He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;

Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

2 Kings 2:14

And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.

Ezra 9:3

And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.

Ezra 9:5

And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God.

At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

Job 2:12

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

Psalms 109:29

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

Isaiah 3:22

The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

their festive robes, capes, cloaks, and purses;