Definitions for mantling

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mantling man·tling

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IPA: /ˈmænt lɪŋ/

Mantling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in mantling (agilmnnt).

Definitions for mantling

noun

1. a decorative piece of cloth represented as hanging from a torse so as to cover the sides and rear of a helmet and often so as to frame the escutcheon below.
2. a loose, sleeveless cloak or cape.
3. something that covers, envelops, or conceals:
4. Geology. the portion of the earth, about 1800 miles (2900 km) thick, between the crust and the core. Compare core1 (def 10), crust (def 6).
5. Zoology. a single or paired outgrowth of the body wall that lines the inner surface of the valves of the shell in mollusks and brachiopods.
6. a chemically prepared, incombustible network hood for a gas jet, kerosene wick, etc., that, when the jet or wick is lighted, becomes incandescent and gives off a brilliant light.
7. Ornithology. the back, scapular, and inner wing plumage, especially when of the same color and distinct from other plumage.
8. mantel.
9. Metallurgy. a continuous beam set on a ring of columns and supporting the upper brickwork of a blast furnace in such a way that the brickwork of the hearth and bosh may be readily replaced.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as if with a mantle; envelop; conceal.

verb (used without object)

1. to spread or cover a surface, as a blush over the face.
2. to flush; blush.
3. (of a hawk) to spread out one wing and then the other over the corresponding outstretched leg.
4. to be or become covered with a coating, as a liquid; foam:

Origin of mantling

First recorded in 1500-10; mantle + -ing¹

Examples for mantling

Louis smiled also; but it was accompanied by a mantling cheek.

The mantling for "azure, a lion rampant erminois" would be azure and or.

The main metals and colours of the coat-of-arms should be repeated in the mantling.

In both of these examples the adjustment of the mantling is shown.

What were its arched neck and mantling wings if it were not living?

Here there is no colour at all, so the mantling would be gules and argent.

Heraldically this is represented by what is now called the mantling.

Grand Falconer: Two lures appending from the ends of the mantling.

His actual presence was the roseleaf upon the mantling cup of bliss.

A Scottish Peer has, in addition, the ermine lining to his mantling.