▪ I. mantling, vbl. n.
(ˈmæntlɪŋ)
[f. mantle v. + -ing1.]
† 1. The action of making a mantle. Obs.
| 1507–8 in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1902) IV. 30 Item, for mantilling of the said skinnis and lynyng of the goun, xxs. |
2. Her. The ornamental accessory of drapery or scroll-work frequently depicted behind and around an achievement; a lambrequin; cf. mantle n. 1 g.
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Follajes, mantelling in armes, florishing, Mangonizatio. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry vi. v. (1611) 267 Our now common received Mantelings vsed for the adorning of atchievements. Ibid., These..may be more fitly termed flourishings than Mantelings. 1708 New View Lond. II. 553/1 One [monument]..composed of white Marble, adorned with a Mantling. 1893 Cussans Handbk. Her. (ed. 4) xv. 191 The Mantlings of Knights and Esquires are commonly depicted as depending from the helmet. |
3. = mantelpiece 1.
| 1861 Macm. Mag. IV. 129/2 The mantlings or frames of fire-places. |
4. What serves the purpose of a mantle; a protective or ornamental covering; a wrappage, envelope.
| 1652 Loveday tr. Calprenede's Cassandra iii. 182 His Mantling trayling to the ground, was also of a light Golden-Tissue. 1627–77 Feltham Resolves ii. lxvi. 298 The troubles..which are as it were the Thorns and Mantlings wherewith a Crown is lined. 1671 Grew Anat. Plants iv. §16 The Stalk..giving the same Protection here, which in other Plants by the Leaves, or some particular Mantling, is contriv'd. a 1734 North Lives (1826) III. 201 At home with us a private person divested of all his mantlings. |
5. a. Of a liquor, etc.: The action of foaming or ‘creaming’; also fig. b. A blush or suffusion of colour produced by emotion.
| 1697 Jer. Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. (1703) ii. 198 'Tis a Happiness without a Fund: 'Tis no more than a little mantling of the Spirits upon stirring. 1754 Richardson Grandison (1781) I. xvi. 101 Such sensible, such good-natured mantlings. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. i. viii, There had been a momentary mantling in the face of the man as he made the last answer. |
6. The action of a hawk that mantles: see mantle v. 3.
| 1773 J. Campbell Mod. Falconry 262 Mantling, the lowering of a hawk's wings down to her feet. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow B. xxvi. (1860) 230 He [the hawk] alternately stretched out first one wing, and then the other, along his leg,—in the action known by the name of mantling. |
7. Material for making mantles.
| 1893 Times 10 July 4/3 Novelties in coatings, suitings, and mantlings. |
8. Alum-making. (See mantle v. 9.)
| 1879 Spon's Encycl. Arts, Manuf., etc. I. 327 When the process is complete, a thicker ‘mantling’ is laid on. |
▪ II. ˈmantling, ppl. a.
[f. mantle v. + -ing2.]
1. Of liquids: Gathering a scum or coating; sparkling to a ‘head’. Also transf.
| 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. i. xxiii, The mantling stream Encounter'd by the tides..Of's way doth doubtfull seem. a 1718 Penn Maxims Wks. 1726 I. 829 'Tis not often, though it [wit] be lively and mantling, that it carries a great Body with it. 1732 Pope Hor. Sat. ii. ii. 8 And the brain dances to the mantling bowl. 1822 Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Conf. Drunkard, It were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation. 1851 Hawthorne Twice-told T., Hollow of Three Hills, They were said to stand around the mantling pool, disturbing its putrid waters. |
2. That spreads and covers; enveloping.
| 1634 Milton Comus 294, I saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill. 1716 Gay Trivia ii. 54 You'll sometimes meet a fop, of nicest tread, Whose mantling peruke veils his empty head. 1768 Sir W. Jones Solima Poems (1777) 4 Where mantling darkness spreads her dragon wing. 1770 Goldsm. Des. Vill. 132 The brook with mantling cresses spread. 1862 G. P. Scrope Volcanos (ed. 2) 164 The mantling beds or currents of lava that compose a large part of its substance. 1883 G. Allen in Nature 29 Mar. 514/1 The hop type belongs rather to mantling than to mere twining climbers. |
† 3. Eagerly desiring. (Cf. mantle v. 4 c.) Obs.
| 1657 Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 42 The mantling Goats skipt and leapt. |
4. Of the blood: Suffusing the face. Of the cheeks: Becoming suffused with heightened colour.
| 1707 E. Smith Phædra & Hipp. ii. (1709) 13 When mantling Blood Glow'd in his lovely Cheeks. 1812 Crabbe Tales, The Confidant (init.), And, at the distant hint or dark surmise, The blood into the mantling cheek would rise. 1872 Black Adv. Phaeton xxiii. 324 This girl with the mantling colour in her cheek. |