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enswathe

American  
[en-swoth, -swayth] / 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

No other thing is more enswathed in the unknown.

From The History of the Telephone by Herbert Newton Casson

Keep the body enswathed in the double poultice, but don't let the emulsion touch his skin directly.

From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern

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 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 Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

She tumbled it about, all the time wrapping it with the issuing band of silk, until it was completely enswathed.

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

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

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

From Friendship by Hugh Black

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

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill

Its limits are broad; broad as the home of man; with its enswathing atmosphere added.

From Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

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