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How do you spell Mantling

Available Definitions:
1)  n. - The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.
2)  n. - Same as Mantling.
3)  n. - The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts . of Buccinum, and Byssus.
4)  n. - Any free, outer membrane.
5)  n. - The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6)  n. - A mantel. See Mantel .
7)  n. - The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
8)  n. - A penstock for a water wheel.
9)  v. t. - To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
10)  v. i. - To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
11)  v. i. - To spread out; -- said of wings.
12)  v. i. - To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
13)  v. i. - To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.





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