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.

Examples of "mantle" in Sentences

The crust is underlain by the mantle.
The mantle protrudes behind the shell.
Let's investigate the structure of the mantle.
The current state of the icy mantle is unclear.
Bruce was forced to reclaim the mantle of the Bat.
The formation of a supercontinent insulates the mantle.
They are destined to take over the mantle of rulers of the Earth.
Peridotite is the dominant rock of the upper part of the Earth's mantle.
This is why the outer core and the mantle layers of the earth are molten.
Picking up the mantle is a relative newcomer: Lu Din Gee Cafe, where seven of us gathered recently for a duck feast.
So far, no politician has emerged as a leader of the Tea Party movement – and the question of just who might eventually take up the mantle is a hot topic on the bus.
I had opened it at a Gnostic Hymn that told of a certain King’s son who, being exiled, slept in Egypt—a symbol of the natural state—and how an Angel while he slept brought him a royal mantle; and at the bottom of the page I found a footnote saying that the word mantle did not represent the meaning properly, for that which the Angel gave had the exile’s own form and likeness.