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The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. [Written also mantle.]

A short cloak or mantle worn by women. A mantelet upon his shoulders hanging. Chaucer.

A silk or woolen vestment without sleeves worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court. It has a low collar, is fastened in front, and reaches almost to the knees.

Same as Mantel.

The shelf of a mantel.

The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses.

ually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

The process of bituminizing. Mantell.

A mantelpiece.

-- Elephant bed (Geol.), at Brighton, England, abounding in fossil remains of elephants. Mantell. -- Elephant beetle (Zoöl.), any very large beetle of the genus Goliathus (esp. G. giganteus), of the family Scarabæidæ. They inhabit West Africa. -- Elephant fish (Zoöl.), a chimæroid fish (Callorhynchus antarcticus), w…

Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell. -- Elephantine tortoise (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise; esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.

To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. Mantell.

ks. Beds of fresh-water shells . . . are intercalated and interstratified with the shale. Mantell.

or layer between other layers. Intercalations of fresh-water species in some localities. Mantell.

A mantel. See Mantel.

See Mantelet.

Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.

A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis.

allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.

Produced by fire; igneous. Mantell. .