mantle

MAN'TLE, noun [Gr. a cloke.] 1. A kind of cloke or loose garment to be worn over other garments. The herald and children are clothed with mantles of satin. 2. A cover. Well covered with the night's black mantle 3. A cover; that which conceals; as the mantle of charity. MAN'TLE, verb transitive To cloke; to cover; to disguise. So the rising senses Begin to chase th'ignorant fumes, that mantle Their clearer reason. MAN'TLE, verb intransitive To expand; to spread. The swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, rows Her state with oary feet. 1. To joy; to revel. My frail fancy, fed with full delights, Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. 2. To be expanded; to be spread or extended. He gave the mantling vine to grow, A trophy to his love. 3. To gather over and form a cover; to collect on the surface, as a covering. There is a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. And the brain dances to the mantling bowl. 4. To rush to the face and cover it with a crimson color. When mantling blood Flow'd in his lovely cheeks. [Fermentation cannot be deduced from mangling, otherwise than as a secondary sense.]