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unˈwrap, v.
[un-2 3, 4, 7.]
1. trans. To remove the wrapping from; to uncover by removing a wrapping or the like. Also refl.
Before c 1820 somewhat rare; cf. sense 2.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 5 So soore artow ywoundid That verray nede vnwrappeth al thy wounde hid. 1530Palsgr. 769/1 Unwrappe this same and looke what is in it. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Dessiller, to vn⁓wrappe his eies, to restore the sight. a1618Sylvester Pibrac's Titrastica lxxxiii, Her spightfull Cords shee can so closely knit, That though at last wee happen to un-wrap us; The print thereof still in our Fames will sit. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 119 The man-slayer was unwrapping the bundle. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xxii, He had wrapped the box up in a great many covers, that he might see Hetty unwrapping it with growing curiosity.
fig.1889R. Bridges Sonn. xxix, The sun's first rays, That lift the dark west and unwrap the night.
†b. fig. To unfold, reveal, disclose, explain. Obs. rare.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. vi. (1868) 133 Þou hast ȝeuen..me to vnwrappen þe hidde causes of þinges. 1593Sidney's Arcadia iii. (1629) 366, I will disclose my greatest secret... I will, I say, unwrap my hidden estate. 1600Fairfax Tasso xvii. lxxxvii, That so I could the Catalogue vn⁓wrap Of thy great nephewes, yet vnborne.
c. To deliver out of, release from, free of, some envelopment; to liberate or set free. Also fig.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 12 Like a maze, out of which we can not vnwrapp our selues, vnlesse [etc.]. 1568Earl of Sussex in E. Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1791) II. 6 And, lastly, to foresee that these Scotts on bothe sydes packe not together, so as to unwrappe..ther mystres owte of all present slaunders, purge her openly [etc.]. 1620Shelton 2nd Pt. Don Quix. xlviii. 321 Vnwrapping him from the Sheet and the Quilt, they pinched him. c1825Beddoes Poems, Torrismond i. iv, Unwrap me of my years, and hunt me..Into my mother's womb! there unbeget me!
2. To open, unwind, or unroll (what is wrapped or wound); † to unfurl (a sail). Also fig.
Rare before 19th cent.; cf. sense 1.
1387Trevisa Higden (MS. Cott. Tib.) fol. 3, Þis matyre..haþ meny..wyndyngs and wrynkklyngs þat wol noȝt be vnwrappid. Ibid., My wyt ys ful lytel to vnwrappe þe gret hardnes of so wondre werks. 1582Stanyhurst æneid iii. (Arb.) 76 Our sayls vnwrapped vphoysing,..thee rough seas deepelye we furrowe. 1807J. Barlow Columb. iii. 821 Where the savage leader lay..[he] directs his eager way, Unwraps the tyger's hide, and strives..To close the wound. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last ii. (1896) 60 Rags unwrapped from the breasts of goodly soldiers dead. 1894A. Robertson Nuggets, etc. 27 He unwrapped his blankets, [and] spread them on the bed.
b. (See quot.)
1859T. Lund Elem. Geom. & Mensuration iii. 316 We may call attention to two cases of curved surfaces, where the surface can be unwrapped, so as to form a plane surface.
3. intr. To undergo unwrapping or unwinding.
1833Whewell Astron. 218 A stone at the end of a string, when the string is whirled round, and is allowed to wrap round the hand, or to unwrap from it. c1888Yeats Poems (1912) 261 Joy..stirs the young kid's budding horn, And makes the infant ferns unwrap. |