Wrap

Definition of Wrap

v. t.

1.

To snatch up; transport; - chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves.

- Beattie.

1.

[imp. & p. p. Wrapped or Wrapt; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

- 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.

n.

1.

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

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