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enwind, inwind, v.|ɛn-, ɪnˈwaɪnd|
[f. en-1 + wind v.]
trans. To wind itself around (something); to surround as with windings or coils. Also, to make into a coil. lit. and fig.
1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 245 A sound, a sense of music..Softly, finely, it inwound me. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xcviii, Let her great Danube rolling fair Enwind her isles, unmark'd of me. 1859― Guinevere 598 The moony vapour rolling round the king..Enwound him fold by fold. 1876Swinburne Erechth. 806 With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and blood-coloured foliage inwound. 1877M. Arnold Fragm. Antigone Poems II. 40 The bond Original, deep-inwound, Of blood.
Hence enˈwinding vbl. n.
1598Florio, Falde..a folding, an inwinding or a plaiting of a garment. 1697View Penal Laws 257 Neither he or any other shall make any Inwinding within the Fleece. |