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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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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 Hiram Corson

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 Gilbert Parker

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 Florence Hobart Perin

Not his friends; for they would have taken the cerements and wrappings with which Joseph and Nicodemus had enswathed it.

From John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

Roll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed, Your plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.

From Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson

Nov. 23, 9:30 a.m.; another bee released in cage, caught in web and enswathed approximately thirty turns by Argiope.

From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg

The grim face of the giant planet was enswathed in endless billowing clouds.

From Pirates of the Gorm by Nathan Schachner

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

From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner

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 George Gibbs

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

From Friendship by Hugh Black

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

With her hind legs Argiope turned the bee over and over twenty-five or twenty-six times, thus enswathing it with twenty-five or twenty-six wrappings of the silken sheet.

From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg

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