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wrapt |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wrap \Wrap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrapped}or {Wrapt}; p. pr & vb n. {Wrapping}.] [OE. wrappen, probably akin to E. warp. [root]144. Cf {Warp}.] 1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds. Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself --John xx 6, 7. Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams. --Bryant. 2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure. --Milton. 3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by Wise poets that wrap truth in tales. --Carew. {To be wrapped up in}, to be wholly engrossed in to be entirely dependent on to be covered with Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up died in a few days after the death of her daughter. --Addison. Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. --Locke.
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