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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)

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."

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."

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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wrapped" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Moravia and Bohemia are wrapped in obscurity. In 801 Charles the Great endeavoured a forcible conversion of the former country, but with no more than transitory success. Yet in 836 a church was consecrated at Neutra by the Archbishop of Salzburg. A ...

— The Church and the Barbarians - Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 • William Holden Hutton

... from his pocket, carefully wrapped in the folds of his handkerchief. It turned out to be a half-smoked cigarette. Hugh fastened his eyes instantly on some small printing in blue ink, giving the name of the ...

— The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey • Donald Ferguson

... leaned back, tired-like, against the log, and dredged his upper left-hand waistcoat-pocket, and brought up a sovereign wrapped in a pound note. Then he waited for me to speak; but I couldn't. I got my mouth open, but couldn't get ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... strike and to slay, his face grew stern, and he paused no longer, but with his sword he smote her neck with all his might and main. And to the rocky floor the body of Medusa fell with brazen clang, but her head he wrapped in the goatskin, while he turned his eyes away. Aloft then he sprang, and flew swifter than an arrow from the bow ...

— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang

... see them soon," he said very gently; and the next moment, to confirm his words, the door again new open, and Charlie Evson was wrapped in his mother's arms, and strained to her heart, and covered with her kisses, and his bright young face bathed in her tears ...

— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

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