Word Meanings - ENSWATHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak.

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• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• SWATHE
  To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot.
• SWATHER
  A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• ENVELOPMENT
  1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• SWADDLER
  A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.
• SWADDLEBILL
  The shoveler.
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• ENVELOPE; ENVELOP
  The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma. (more info) 1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
• CLOTHES
  1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes,
• SWADDLING
  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.
• ENVELOP
  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. (more info)
• CLOTHESPRESS
  A receptacle for clothes.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• UNSWADDLE
  To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.
• SHORTCLOTHES
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
• GRAVECLOTHES
  The clothes or dress in which the dead are interred.
• INSWATHE
  To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.
• ENSWATHEMENT
  The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.