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Wrap   /ræp/   Listen
verb
Wrap  v. t.  To snatch up; transport; chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. "Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves."



Wrap  v. t.  (past & past part. wrapped or wrapt; pres. part. wrapping)  
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." "Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
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."
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."
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." "Things reflected on in gross and transiently... are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity."



noun
Wrap  n.  A wrapper; often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.






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"Wrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... fergit the basque? Er what hez happened to it?" cried Sary, sympathetically, while Barbara struggled vainly to wrench herself free from the ill-smelling wrap that generally hung in ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... leap at the shrill pipe of the whistle from the busy deck or their snug hammocks, and, like so many monkeys, jump up the shrouds, lie out on the enormous yards while the frigate was plunging bows under in the tumultuous seas, grasp the writhing canvas in their sinewy paws, and wrap it up close and tight in the hempen gaskets. Man-of-war sailors, for battle, or gale, or spree, ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

... street, and as Kuni had come out without any wrap, Frau Schurstab, in her friendly consideration, shortened the, conference. Lienhard Uroland had helped her with a few words, and when the sedan chair and the young Councillor moved down the street all the necessary details were settled. The vagrant had bound herself and assumed duties, though they ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... words express the story I've to tell you, Fathers, these tears were useless, these sad tears That fall from my old eyes; but there is cause We all should weep, tear off these purple robes, And wrap ourselves in sackcloth, sitting down On the sad earth, and cry aloud to heav'n. Heav'n knows, if yet there be an hour to come Ere ...
— Venice Preserved - A Tragedy • Thomas Otway

... the bulwarks, and had thus caused the capture of several slavers. I was to see this talent exerted. Jack Stretcher, who was a capital companion, went with us as coxswain. We were all dressed in thick flannel shirts, and had blankets in which to wrap ourselves at night. We had water and provisions for ten days, and a small stove, with which to warm up our cocoa and tea, and to make a stew or a broil on occasion. I do not remember that we had any other luxuries. Towards the end of the afternoon watch we shoved off from the brig's ...
— Salt Water - The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman • W. H. G. Kingston


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