A kind of cloke or loose garment to be worn over other garments. The herald and children are clothed with mantles of satin.

Acover. Well covered with the night’s black mantle.

A cover; that which conceals; as the mantle of charity.

To cloke; to cover; to disguise. So the rising senses . Begin to chase th’ignorant fumes, that mantle . Their clearer reason.

To expand; to spread. The swan with arched neck . Between her white wings mantling, rows . Her state with oary feet.

To joy; to revel . My frail fancy, fed with full delights, Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

To be expanded; to be spread or extended. He gave the mantling vine to grow, A trophy to his love.

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.

To rush to the face and cover it with a crimson color. When mantling blood . Flow’d in his lovely cheeks.

The piece of timber or stone in front of a chimney, over the fire-place, resting on the jambs.