Word Meanings - MANTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See WINGS (more info) mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments;

Additional info about word: MANTLE

See WINGS (more info) mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. children are clothed with mantles of satin. Bacon. The green mantle of the standing pool. Shak. Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. Burns.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MANTLE)

• Effervesce
• Boil
• bubble
• foam
• mantle
• froth
• ferment
• sparkle
• explode
• bluster

Related words: (words related to MANTLE)

• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
• FERMENT
  fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The
• FROTHILY
  In a frothy manner.
• MANTLE
  See WINGS (more info) mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments;
• FROTHY
  1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy. 2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon. 3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• FROTHING
  Exaggerated declamation; rant.
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• BUBBLE SHELL
  A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
• EFFERVESCENT
  Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas
• FERMENTATION
  1. The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense , the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according
• SPARKLE
  1. A little spark; a scintillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott. 2. Brilliancy;
• FROTHLESS
  Free from froth.
• FERMENTATION THEORY
  The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory .
• FROTH
  1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. 2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a
• EFFERVESCE
  1. To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form. 2. To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings that can not be repressed or concealed;
• EXPLODENT
  1. An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive. 2. See Explosive, n.,
• FERMENTAL
  Fermentative.
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• INEFFERVESCENT
  Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• PORTMANTLE
  A portmanteau.
• DISPARKLE
  To scatter abroad. Holland.
• EMMANTLE
  To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. Holland.
• OUTMANTLE
  To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress. And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper.
• IVY-MANTLED
  Covered with ivy.