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swaddling

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swaddle  \Swad"dle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Swaddled};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Swaddling}.] 
  1.  To  bind  as  with  a  bandage;  to  bind  or  warp  tightly  with 
  clothes;  to  swathe;  --  used  esp.  of  infants;  as  to 
  swaddle  a  baby. 
 
  They  swaddled  me  up  in  my  nightgown  with  long  pieces 
  of  linen.  --Addison. 
 
  2.  To  beat  to  cudgel.  [Obs.]  --Hudibras. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swaddling  \Swad"dling\, 
  a.  &  n.  from  {Swaddle},  v. 
 
  {Swaddling  band},  {Swaddling  cloth},  or  {Swaddling  clout},  a 
  band  or  cloth  wrapped  round  an  infant,  especially  round  a 
  newborn  infant. 
 
  Ye  shall  find  the  babe  wrapped  in  swaddling  clothes, 
  lying  in  a  manger.  --Luke  ii  12.




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