Mantles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MANTLES in dictionary:

VERB:
• MANTLE, to cover as with a cloak
• cloak or envelop
• (of blood) suffuse (the face)
• (of the face) glow with a blush
• (of a liquid) become covered with a head or froth
• (of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail so as to cover captured prey
NOUN:
• a loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women
• a covering of a specified sort
• (in molluscs, cirripedes, and brachiopods) a fold of skin enclosing the viscera and secreting the shell.
• an important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another
• a mesh cover fixed round a gas jet to give an incandescent light when heated.
• a bird's back, scapulars, and wing coverts, especially when of a distinctive colour
• the region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite)
• the part of another planetary body corresponding to the earth's mantle
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cloak

Words related to MANTLES

mantle8 mantled10 mantling11

Words that contain MANTLES

immantles13 unmantles11 dismantles13 outmantles12 portmantles15

How to use MANTLES in a sentence

• The women were about five in number, and some of them carried large bundles of linen under their mantles.
• Pine and spruce trees were so thickly clothed with red cones that they shone like crimson mantles.
• Shawls and long mantles that fall from the shoulders give even youthful figures a look of age, because the lines are long and dignified and without especial grace.
• She departed in a whirl of new frocks and sweeping mantles and feathery hats, and a quietness it had never known settled upon Cloom.
• Surely, with this stuff, before long the notion of a sail would arise in these minds! We saw cotton mantles and other articles of dress, both white and gayly dyed or figured.
• Likewise they owned a few cotton mantles, with jars of baked clay, and we saw a copper hatchet.
• The lining of robes of state, as also the rows of fur set on the mantles of peers.
• One objection to the mantles is their tendency to break.
• Now in the high sisterhood of the peaks we saw they were as mantles that had been dropped about the feet.
• When they drew near the city, about a thousand persons who appeared to be of distinction, came out to meet them, adorned with plumes and clad in mantles of fine cotton.
• They wore mantles, falling from their shoulders nearly to the ground, ornamented with designs executed in brightly colored feathers.
• Beneath the mantles they wore short petticoats of soft white material.
• Instead of the cloaks, they wore mantles of fur or gorgeous feather work.
• Their clothes were stiff with the frozen moisture from their bodies, and the cotton mantles offered but small protection against the cold.
• Three Ward Leaders, conspicuous by their black mantles and badges, clambered into the body and appeared above it.
• The mantles of the squaws were of deer-skin, but covered entirely with beads, the groundwork of deep sky-blue ones, with gay stiff figures in brilliant colors.
• They accordingly brought us several ornaments of much debased gold, and gave us four women to make bread, and a load of mantles.
• We joined the column, and soon after found the missing soldier sleeping under some mantles to relieve his fatigue, as he had not been accustomed to hardships.
• The cadets of Gascony, wrapped in their mantles, are sleeping.
• Just as we had filled our casks, about fifty Indians, dressed in cotton mantles, came towards us, who all appeared to be chiefs.
• We found at this place four Indian priests in long black mantles, like Dominicans, who had that day sacrificed two boys, offering up their hearts to that accursed idol.
• After some conversation, the presents were displayed on mats and mantles spread out on the ground.
• Young people can wear smaller and shorter mantles than their elders, who require something larger and more imposing.
• But Achilles and Agamemnon covered their faces with their mantles, and stayed inside the tent.
• As for Gareth and Gaheris, they could not bear the sight and stood with their faces covered in their mantles.

Similar words containing MANTLE without suffix s

mantle8 mantled10 mantlet9 immantle12 mantlets10 unmantle10 dismantle12 immantled14 immantles13 outmantle11 unmantled12 unmantles11 dismantled14 dismantler13 dismantles13 mantletree12 outmantled13 outmantles12 portmantle14 dismantlers14 mantletrees13 portmantles15 undismantled16 dismantlement18 dismantlements19

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