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enswathe

American  
[en-swoth, -sweyth] / ɛnˈswɒð, -sweɪð /

verb (used with object)

enswathed, enswathing
  1. to swathe.


enswathe British  
/ ɪnˈsweɪð /

verb

  1. (tr) to bind or wrap; swathe

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of enswathe

First recorded in 1590–1600; en- 1 + swathe 1

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Rosy and proud are the skies of the East, Love-dowered moons to enswathe thee, delight thee: Thy days and our days—are thine then the least, O Aphrodite?

From Embers, Complete by Parker, Gilbert

Ay, if words never needed enswathe aught But ignorance, impudence, envy And malice—what word-swathe would then vie With yours for a clearness crystalline?

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram

One object—that occupying the place of honour—was carefully enswathed.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

The Locust is then perceived and forthwith enswathed, after which the signalling-thread is remade, taking the place of the one which I have broken. 

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

A dead Christ enswathed and cold, A Christ that did not rise.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

No other thing is more enswathed in the unknown.

From The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert Newton

The sorrows and joys of the coming day are hidden from our sight, enswathed in the folded hours of toil.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart

From the bed he took the baron’s sheets and blankets, enswathing the unfortunate servant until nothing but the tip of his nose was visible.

From The Maker of Opportunities by Gibbs, George

Her fascination was fast enswathing me like another Jones, only a thousandfold more sweetly.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel

Connect′ively.—Connective tissue, one of the four sets of the commonest classification of animal tissues, including a great variety—e.g. bone, cartilage, ligaments, and enswathing membranes.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.

From Slaves of Mercury by Schachner, Nathan

It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.

From Friendship by Black, Hugh

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