or MANTLE Tree, in Architecture, the lower part of the chimney, or that piece of timber which is laid across the jambs, and sustains the compartments of the chimney-piece.

or Mantling, in Heraldry, that appearance of folding of cloth, flourishing, or drapery, which in any achievement is drawn about a coat of arms. See HERALDRY, sect. v.

MANIO, in poetic history, the daughter of Tireias, and like her father strongly inspired with prophecy. She was in so great esteem, that when the Argives pillaged Thebes, they thought they could not acquit their vow to Apollo, of consecrating to him the most precious thing in their plunder, without offering him this young woman. She was therefore sent to the temple of Delphi. But this did not engage her in any vow of continence; or, if it did, she observed it very ill: for the bore a son called Amphelchus to Alcmeon, who had been generalissimo of the army which took Thebes; and a daughter to the same, named Typhione. These children were the fruits of an amour carried on during the madness which had seized Alcmeon, after he had put his mother to death. Virgil transports her into Italy, not for the sake of securing her virginity, but to produce a son of her who built Mantua.