enwind

American  

[en-wahynd] / ɛnˈwaɪnd /

verb (used with object)

enwound, enwinding

1. to wind or coil about; encircle.

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enwind British  

/ ɪnˈwaɪnd /

verb

1. (tr) to wind or coil around; encircle

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Etymology

Origin of enwind

First recorded in 1590–1600; en- ¹ + wind ²

Example Sentences

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enwind enwinding enwound

Whom Heaven still leaves a twofold dignity, As girlhood gentle, and as boyhood free; With whom no most diaphanous webs enwind The bared limbs of the rebukeless mind.

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson

Then Cuteyt went into the prison, where he found Noureddin repeating the following verses: Who shall avail me against the woes that my life enwind?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne

When thy sleep like the moonlight above         Lulling the sea, Doth enwind thee in visions of love,         Perchance, of me!

From Poems by Victor Hugo

What profit to him that he had won the mastery over himself, had cut the tentacle coils that were enwinding him?

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

Similarly appropriate and suggestive was the new linen cloth, which Joseph bought expressly for the purpose of enwinding the body.

From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by James Stalker

Forth from those arms' enwinding leprosy At last I struggle—uncontaminate:310 Why must I leave you pressing to the breast That's all one plague-spot?

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

Praised be the fathomless universe For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise For the sure enwinding arms of cool, enfolding Death.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard

Ah, with blind lips I felt for you, and found About my neck your hands and hair enwound, The hands that stifle and the hair that stings, I felt them fasten sharply without sound.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

His is a dread figure, "enwound with glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned."

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman

Nay; nor, indeed, whose hand Hath grasped the noblest fame; nor yet divine Whose brows enwound with honor, brightest shine.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

So closely is the bare mythical construction enwound with the symbolic or doctrinal passages which are meant to give it such vitality and such coherence as they may.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the lap of the waves he espied a purple-suited nymph, enwound with a sash of Roman red, extending white arms that glistened like newly chiselled marble in the green spray.

From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke