man.tle
1. A loose sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak.
2. Something that covers, envelops, or conceals: 窶廾n a summer night... a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads窶 (John Dollard).
Variant of mantel.
3. The outer covering of a wall.
4. A zone of hot gases around a flame.
5. A device in gas lamps consisting of a sheath of threads that gives off brilliant illumination when heated by the flame.
6. Anatomy. The cerebral cortex.
7. Geology. The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.
8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth.
9. The wings, shoulder feathers, and back of a bird when differently colored from the rest of the body.
10. Zoology.
A fold or pair of folds of the body wall that lines the shell and secretes the substance that forms the shell in mollusks and brachiopods.
11. The soft outer wall lining the shell of a tunicate or barnacle.
Source: The American Heritageﾂｮ Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Copyright ﾂｩ 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company
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