mantle vs pall

mantle

verb
  • To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise. 

  • To climb over or onto something. 

  • To become covered or concealed. 

  • To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes). 

noun
  • 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 

pall

verb
  • To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. 

  • To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. 

  • To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. 

noun
  • Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion. 

  • A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist. 

  • A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y charged with crosses. 

  • Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”). 

  • A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse. 

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