Dismantleverb
To divest, strip of dress or covering.
Mantlenoun
A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum.
Dismantleverb
(transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.
Mantlenoun
(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
‘At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.’; ‘The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.’;
Dismantleverb
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
Mantlenoun
(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
Dismantleverb
To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
Mantlenoun
(malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
Dismantleverb
To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.
‘A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain.’;
Mantlenoun
(ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
Dismantleverb
To disable; to render useless.
Mantlenoun
The zone of hot gases around a flame.
Dismantleverb
tear down so as to make flat with the ground;
‘The building was levelled’;
Mantlenoun
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.
Dismantleverb
take apart into its constituent pieces
Mantlenoun
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
Dismantleverb
take off or remove;
‘strip a wall of its wallpaper’;
Mantlenoun
A penstock for a water wheel.
Mantlenoun
(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
Mantlenoun
(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
Mantlenoun
A fireplace shelf; lang=en
Mantlenoun
(heraldry) A mantling.
Mantleverb
(transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
Mantleverb
(intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
Mantleverb
(intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
Mantlenoun
A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak.
‘[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin.’; ‘The green mantle of the standing pool.’; ‘Now Nature hangs her mantle greenOn every blooming tree.’;
Mantlenoun
Same as Mantling.
Mantlenoun
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.
Mantlenoun
A mantel. See Mantel.
Mantlenoun
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
Mantlenoun
A penstock for a water wheel.
Mantlenoun
The highly viscous shell of hot semisolid rock, about 1800 miles thick, lying under the crust of the Earth and above the core. Also, by analogy, a similar shell on any other planet.
Mantleverb
To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
Mantleverb
To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; - said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
‘Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch.’; ‘Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew.’; ‘My frail fancy fed with full delight.Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.’;
Mantleverb
To spread out; - said of wings.
‘The swan, with arched neckBetween her white wings mantling proudly, rows.’;
Mantleverb
To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
‘Though mantled in her cheek the blood.’;
Mantleverb
To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
‘There is a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond.’; ‘Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.’;
Mantlenoun
the cloak as a symbol of authority;
‘place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders’;
Mantlenoun
United States baseball player (1931-1997)
Mantlenoun
the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
Mantlenoun
anything that covers;
‘there was a blanket of snow’;
Mantlenoun
(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
Mantlenoun
shelf that projects from wall above fireplace;
‘in England they call a mantel a chimneypiece’;
Mantlenoun
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
Mantlenoun
a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
Mantleverb
spread over a surface, like a mantle
Mantleverb
cover like a mantle;
‘The ivy mantles the building’;
Mantlenoun
a loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women
‘she was wrapped tightly in her mantle’;
Mantlenoun
a covering of a specified sort
‘the houses were covered with a thick mantle of snow’;
Mantlenoun
a bird's back, scapulars, and wing coverts, especially when of a distinctive colour
‘many gulls are all white except for dark grey mantle and wings’;
Mantlenoun
(in molluscs, cirripedes, and brachiopods) a fold of skin enclosing the viscera and secreting the shell.
Mantlenoun
an important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another
‘the second son has now assumed his father's mantle’;
Mantlenoun
a fragile mesh cover fixed round a gas jet, kerosene wick, etc., to give an incandescent light when heated.
Mantlenoun
the region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite)
‘magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle’; ‘mantle rock’; ‘the presence of hot mantle leads to melting at the base of the lithosphere’;
Mantlenoun
the part of another planetary body corresponding to the earth's mantle
‘the lunar mantle’;
Mantlenoun
variant spelling of mantel
Mantleverb
cloak or envelop
‘heavy mists mantled the forested slopes’;
Mantleverb
(of blood) suffuse (the face)
‘a warm pink mounted to the girl's cheeks and mantled her brow’;
Mantleverb
(of the face) glow with a blush
‘her rich face mantling with emotion’;
Mantleverb
(of a liquid) become covered with a head or froth
‘the poison mantled in the bowl’;
Mantleverb
(of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail so as to cover captured prey
‘the female Goshawk is feeding while mantling with spread wings over her prey’;
