mantle

IPA: mˈæntʌɫ

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
(malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
(ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
The zone of hot gases around a flame.
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.)
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
A penstock for a water wheel.
(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
(heraldry) A mantling.
A surname.
Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”) [The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.]

(transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
(intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
(intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
To climb over or onto something.
(falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
(falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.

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