Section M, N, and O

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Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.
Spenser.

2. To spread out; -- said of wings.

The swan, with arched neck

Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows.

Milton.

3. To spread over the surface as a covering;
to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

Though mantled in her cheek the
blood.

Sir W. Scott.

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.

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