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▪ I. swaddling, vbl. n.|ˈswɒdlɪŋ|
[f. swaddle v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. swaddle; wrapping in swaddling-clothes; swathing, bandaging.
13..,a1425[see swaddling-band]. 1522More De quat. Noviss. Wks. 80/2 Al our swadlynge and tending with warme clothes. 1611Stafford Niobe 161, I would onelie wish, to haue that one ceremonie at my buriall, which I had at my birth; I mean, swadling. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit without Money v. i, Hourly troubled, with making broths, and dawbing your decayes with swadling, and with stitching up your ruines. 1826W. P. Dewees Phys. Treatm. Children 64 The cruel practise of swaddling should be for ever laid aside.
2. pl. (rarely sing.) Swaddling-clothes; also, a bandage. Also fig.
1623Drummond of Hawthornden Flowres of Sion viii, There is hee poorelie swadl'd, in Manger lai'd, To whom too narrow Swadlings are our Spheares. c1645Howell Lett. ii. lxix. (1892) 495 If you continue to wrap up our young acquaintance..in such warm choice swadlings, it will quickly grow up to maturity. 1658A. Fox Würtz' Surg. ii. xxv. 155 In case the Fracture be next to the Knee from below, then use no swadlings over the Knee. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 141 Our knowledge, though its Age write thousands, is still in its swadlings. 1882Lancs. Gloss., Swaddlins, Swathelins, wrappers for children. S. Lancs. 1899Crockett Black Douglas (1900) 330 The head of Gilles de Sillé was still swathed in bandages, when, with an additional swaddling of disguise across his eyes [etc.]. 1905F. Young Sands Pleasure i. v, [A lighthouse] a baby yet, his stone sides hardly out of their swaddling of scaffold!
†3. Beating, cudgelling. Obs.
1628R. S. Counter-Scuffle cxxx, Behinde the doore he stood to heare, For in he durst not come for feare Of swaddling. 1659Torriano, A swadling, bastonamento.
†4. [after swaddler] Methodism; hence, conduct supposed to be characteristic of Methodists.
1759Compl. Lett. Writer iv. xxx. (1768) 217, I thought if her Sidling and Swaddling, and foolish unalterable Simper, did not provoke the Country Dances to begin, nothing could. 1771–2Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773) I. 49 Swaddling and zeal the female troop enflame.
5. attrib. in swaddling-robe, a baby's long-clothes. See also swaddling-band, -clothes, -clouts.
1845G. Murray Islaford 42 To make the swaddling-robe a winding-sheet.
▪ II. ˈswaddling, ppl. a.
[f. swaddler: see -ing2.]
Of a Methodist character or practice; Protestant; † canting.
1747[see swaddler]. 1758Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 449 Swearing he would have none of their swaddling prayers. 1771–2Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773) II. 126 Like the spiritual eye of a Swadling preacher, uplifted to Heaven in a fervour of devotion. 1787Minor 30 The other now resembled a swadling female. 1838Blackw. Mag. May 610/2 You're nothing but a swaddling ould sent ov a saint. 1885W. J. Fitzpatrick T. N. Burke I. 33 No swaddling minister could hold his ground five minutes before them. |