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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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"Wrapped" Quotes from Famous Books

... if she put a sob in that piece of white cambric, and wrapped it up carefully, just as if it were something solid, doubling the handkerchief over and over and putting it in her pocket before going up to the professor ...

— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn

... she found only hate and diabolical calculation. This man, whom she had loved to the point of losing her soul for him, had bequeathed to her one black and fiery thing—the terror of the damned. His thinking wrapped her in this iron garment that ...

— The Damned • Algernon Blackwood

... and saw the mummies which have been unrolled; they are like thin, black, shrivelled corpses; hair and shape of face perfect, even the eyelids. The canvas fold in which they are wrapped quite fresh-looking; the best preserved is 3,055 years old. Amongst the bronzes there is a bust of Livia with a wig. Dined with Toledo, the Spanish Minister. The women put their knives into their mouths, and he is always kissing his wife's ...

— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... he was born would destroy him in [27] his turn, as it withered up his mother; a second danger comes; from this the plant is protected by the influence of the cooling cloud, the lower part of his father the sky, in which it is wrapped and hidden, and of which it is born again, its second mother being, in some versions of the legend, Hy—the Dew. The nursery, where Zeus places it to be brought up, is a cave in Mount Nysa, sought ...

— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

... complete, and in front of it roared a fire that sent its light and heat for twenty paces round. From farther back in the forest the three dragged several small logs, and no sooner had they been added to the flames than both Mukoki and Wabigoon wrapped themselves in their furs and burrowed deep into the sweet-scented balsam under the shelter. Rod's experience that day had not been filled with the terrible hardships of his companions, and for some time after ...

— The Gold Hunters - A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds • James Oliver Curwood

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