mantling Definition

mantle
noun

1. A cloak or loose outer garment.

Thesaurus: veil, wrap, cloak, shawl, cape, shroud, pelisse.
2. literary
A covering.
Example: a mantle of snow
3. geol.
The part of the Earth between the crust and the core.
4. A fireproof mesh around a gas or oil lamp, that glows when the lamp is lit.
5. literary
A position of responsibility.
Example: The leader's mantle passed to him
6. A fold of the external skin of a mollusc, etc that secretes the substance which forms the shell.

verb

mantled, mantling
1. literary
To cover, conceal or obscure something or someone.
Example: mantled in darkness

Etymology: 13c: from Latin mantellum, diminutive of mantum a cloak.