To cause to swell out; to fill.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
The stomach.
The main curved portion of a knife blade.
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
The womb.
The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
To climb over or onto something.
To become covered or concealed.
To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
A penstock for a water wheel.
A mantling.
A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
The zone of hot gases around a flame.
The cerebral cortex.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.)
The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel