Word Meanings - UNSWATHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle. Addison.

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• 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.
• BANDAGE
  1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. 2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the
• RELIEVEMENT
  The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
• UNSWADDLE
  To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
• RELIEVE
  discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See 1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. Piers Plowman. 2. To cause to seem to rise;
• RELIEVER
  One who, or that which, relieves.
• HUSBANDAGE
  The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
• 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.
• UNSWATHE
  To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle. Addison.
• ENSWATHE
  To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak.