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 Thompson, Francis

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 Payne, John

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

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

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 Stalker, James

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 Clarke, Helen Archibald

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 Rives, Hallie Erminie

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 Hubbard, Elbert

O ye who stand, this great doom's witnesses, Behold this too, the dark device which bound My sire unhappy to his death,—behold The mesh which trapped his hands, enwound his feet!

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

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 Creswicke, Louis

They came to a directly opposite conclusion to the doctor—that the rope had somehow enwound itself round the man after he was in the water, and that the swelling of the body had tightened it.

From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by Dilnot, George

My difficulty with the Black Colonel was still more complicated, for it was as if a hair-rope of many strands, such as the Highlanders made, enwound us.

From The Black Colonel by Milne, James

Below them moved the column, noiseless as might be, enwound with mist.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary