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 sensesBegin to chase th'ignorant fumes, that mantleTheir clearer reason.MAN'TLE, verb intransitive To expand; to spread.The swan with arched neckBetween her white wings mantling, rowsHer 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 visagesDo 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 bloodFlow'd in his lovely cheeks.[Fermentation cannot be deduced from mangling, otherwise than as a secondary sense.]