Word Meanings - INSWATHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.

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• INFOLD
  1. To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore. 2. To clasp with the arms; to embrace. Noble Banquo, . . . let me infold thee, And hold
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• 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.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• WANDERINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• INFOLDMENT
  The act of infolding; the state of being infolded.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• WANDERER
  One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
• WANDERING
  a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross , the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. -- Wandering cell , an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. -- Wandering
• WANDER
  1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for
• INSWATHE
  To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• MISWANDER
  To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. Chaucer.
• ENSWATHEMENT
  The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.
• UNSWATHE
  To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle. Addison.
• ENSWATHE
  To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak.
• PINFOLD
  A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.