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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Envelop \En*vel"op\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enveloped}; p. pr &
vb n. {Enveloping}.] [OE. envolupen envolipen OF
envoluper envoleper F. envelopper pref. en- (L. in) +
voluper, voleper See {Develop}.]
To put a covering about to wrap up or in to inclose within
a case, wrapper, integument or the like to surround
entirely; as to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops
a ship.
Nocturnal shades this world envelop. --J. Philips.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
enveloping
adj 1: concealing by enclosing or wrapping as if in something that
is not solid; "the enveloping darkness"; "hills
concealed by shrouding mists" [syn: {enveloping(a)}, {shrouding(a)}]
2: surrounding and closing in on or hemming in "the army's
enveloping maneuver" [syn: {enveloping(a)}]
n : the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: {enclosure},
{enclosing}, {envelopment}, {inclosure}]
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