4. To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a

standing pond.

Shak.

Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.

Tennyson.

Man"tlet (?), n. See Mantelet.

Man"tling (?), n. (Her.) The representation of a mantle, or the drapery

behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.

Man"to (?), n. [It. or Sp. manto, abbrev., from L. mantelum. See

Mantle.] See Manteau. [Obs.] Bailey.

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