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▪ I. wimple, n.|ˈwɪmp(ə)l|
Forms: 1, 3–6 wimpel, 3–5 wympel, 4–6 wymple (1, 3 winpel, 3 wempel, 4 whympel, 5 wim-, wym-, win-, wyn-, -pil, -pill, -pul, -pulle, -pyl, -pylle, Sc. wompyll, 6 wympyll, Sc. womple, 7 wimpell, 9 whimple), 4– wimple.
[Late OE. wimpel = (M)LG., (M)Du. wimpel, OHG. wimpal veil, banner (MHG., G. wimpel streamer, pennon), ON. vimpill (Sw., Da. vimpel from LG.), whence OF. guimple (mod. F. guimpe), of which the variant wimple coincided with the native form. Ultimate origin uncertain.
It is doubtful whether the senses provisionally placed together here and under the vb. belong all to the same word. In branch II there may be an onomatopœic element; for formation and meaning cf. dimple, rimple, rumple, wrimple.]
I.
1. A garment of linen or silk formerly worn by women, so folded as to envelop the head, chin, sides of the face, and neck: now retained in the dress of nuns. Also gen. a veil.
Used loosely in early glossaries as a rendering of L. anabola, cyclas, peplum, ricinum.
a1100Aldhelm Gloss. i. 4296 (Napier 112) Cyclade, .i. ueste, wimple. a1100Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 107/37 Ricinum, winpel uel orl. Ibid. 125/8 Anabola, winpel. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Hire winpel wit oðer maked ȝeleu mid saffran. c1240Ancr. R. 420 (MS. C), Sum seið þæt hit limpeð to ene wummon cundeliche forte were wimpel. c1250Meid. Maregrete xlvii, Ðoru þe mitte of ihū christ, wid her wempel ho hin bond. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6941 Hire bodi wiþ a mantel, a wimpel [v.r. whympel] aboute hire heued. c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 110 Do a-woy ȝoure wimpil & schew ȝoure face bare. c1386― Prol. 151 Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 601/43 Peplum, a wynpul. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxv. 2992 Hyre hayre in wompyll arayande. c1440Gesta Rom. lxix. 317 The emperesse hydde hire face with a wympill, for she wolde not ben y-knowe. 1513Douglas æneis i. vii. 115 To ask supple, with thaim ane womple bair thai, With handis betand ther breistis by the way. c1530Crt. Love 1102 And eke the nonnes, with vaile and wimple plight. 1560Bible (Genev.) Isa. iii. 22 The costelie apparel and the vailes, and the wimpels, and the crisping pinnes. 1805Scott Last Minstr. v. xvii, White was her whimple, and her veil. 1819― Ivanhoe xlii, Her flowing wimple of black cypress. 1879Walford Londoniana II. 247 Three nuns with veils and whimples.
transf.1615Crooke Body of Man 123 A certaine smooth and slippery veyle or wimple is substrated. 1861A. Austin in Temple Bar III. 472 Graves are the sheltering wimples Against Life's rain.
¶2. A flag, streamer. [An alien sense.]
1656Blount Glossogr., Wimple..a Streamer or Flag.
II.
3. A fold or wrinkle; a turn, winding, or twist; a ripple or rippling in a stream.
1513Douglas æneis ii. iv. 30 Bot thai about him lowpit in wympillis [orig. spiris] threw. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 74 b, Be not more curious of a wimple or spot in thy vesture, then thou art of spotting and thorow-stayning thy deere bought Spyrit.
1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck xii. I. 225 A shepherd..hates the wimples, as he calls them, of a turnpike. Ibid. xiv. II. 22 He had as mony links an' wimples in his tail as an eel. 1845Eliza Cook Waters i, Waters, bright Waters,..your wimple just lulleth the minnow to sleep! 1878Stevenson Will o' Mill, Parson's Marj., The river ran between the stepping-stones with a pretty wimple.
4. A crafty turn or twist; a wile. Sc.
1638Sir A. Johnston Diary (S.H.S.) 320 Notwithstanding al wyles, wimples, offers, motions, and uther letts. 1755R. Forbes Ajax's Sp. 24 The gouden helmet will sae glance, An blink wi' skyrin brinns, That a' his wimples they'll find out Fan i' the mark he sheens. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxiv, There is aye a wimple in a lawyer's clew.
Hence wimple-less a., not wearing a wimple.
a1225Ancr. R. 420 Ȝif ȝe muwen beon wimpel-leas, beoð bi warme keppen.
▪ II. ˈwimple, v.
Forms: see prec.; also Sc. 6 wumpil, 7 wo(o)mple.
[f. wimple n.; cf. LG. wimpelen.]
I.
1. trans. To envelop in a wimple; loosely, to veil († occas. pass. to take the veil).
c1240Ancr. R. 420 (MS. C) Wrihen, he seið, naut wimplin. Ibid., Al beo þu i-wimplet. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. i. (1868) 31 She þat ȝit couereþ hir and wympleþ [orig. velat] hir to oþer folk haþ shewed hir euerydel to þe. c1386― Prol. 470 Ywympled wel, and on hir heed an hat. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 2837 Wympled but in symple guyse. 1430–40― Bochas ii. xxviii. (1554) 64 Rhea..Entered into religion, For to be wympled in that holy house, Sacred to Uesta. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 9938 Wympled she was both cheke and chin. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. lxviii. 531 Al wayes she was wympeld that no man myȝt see her vysage. 1592Lyly Midas i. i, Iustice her selfe, that sitteth wimpled about the eyes. 1615W. Hull Mirr. Majestie 82 They wimpled those eyes. 1616J. Lane Contin. Sqr.'s T. vii. 91 note, Ne Titan on woold putt his golden flize, But wimpled fast his melancholie eies. 1822Scott Nigel Introd. Ep., His figure was so closely veiled and wimpled, either with a mantle, morning-gown or some such loose garb. 1870Rock Text. Fabr. i. 30 A female, crowned and wimpled.
†b. intr. for pass. To be veiled. Obs. rare.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Reboçar, to wimple, to go with the face hidden, caput inuoluere.
2. fig. To veil, cover.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. xiv. (Skeat) l. 25 With fayre honyed wordes heretykes and mis-meninge people skleren and wimplen their errours. Ibid. iii. ix. l. 76 In this boke be many privy thinges wimpled and folde. 1620Hist. Reynard the Fox xviii, He that cannot wimple falshood in truths kerchiffe, hath neither Art nor cunning. 1898Atlantic Monthly Apr. 503/2 He will gaze tenderly into the white faces of his cauliflowers, as with pinned leaves he wimples them from the sun.
†3. transf. and fig. To enfold, enwrap, wrap up.
1513Douglas æneis vi. iv. 93 Wymplit and buskit [orig. innexa] in a bludy bend. Ibid. vii. xii. 61 His body wymplit [orig. impexum] in A felloun bustuus and gret lyoun skyn. Ibid. x. xiii. 134 The fatale sisteris tho in deyd Had wymplyt vp [orig. legunt] this Lawsus lattyr threid. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 61 Ane body of ane zoung chyld..wumpillit wpoun sandell. 1594R. Carew Tasso (1881) 80 Her sparing looke a coy regard doth beare, And loues treasures, and hers vp wympelled. a1600Montgomerie Misc. Poems v. 2 No wonder thoght I waill and weip, That womplit am in woes. 1607B. Barnes Divils Charter iv. iii. H 1, I perceiue a little riueling Aboue my for-head but I wimple it Either with iewels or a lock of haire. 1616Rollock's Lect. Passion Ep. Ded. ⁋2 b, He will thirst to be woompled in the wounds of Iesus. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) I. 208 Whilk charge so wrytten was wompled about ane arrow head, syne shott up over the castle walls, wher Ruthven might find the same.
4. pass. and intr. To fall in folds.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 4 A vele, that wimpled was full low. 1751R. Lloyd Progr. Envy viii. Poems (1762) 210 Her mantle wimpled low. 1859–60Jas. Hamilton Moses xviii. (1871) 283 Curtains of delicate texture, all wimpling with the golden wings of cherubim.
5. pass. To be stretched like a wimple or veil.
1868E. R. Sill Poems, Evening i, The Sun is gone: those glorious chariot-wheels Have..left Thin rosy films wimpled across the West.
II.
6. intr. Of a stream: To meander, twist and turn; also, to ripple. Chiefly Sc.
1721Ramsay Poet's Wish i, Tay and Tweed's smooth Streams..quietly..wimple to the Seas. 1785Burns Halloween ii, Amang the bonie, winding banks, Where Doon rins, wimplin, clear. 1848Eliza Cook Bonnie green bough iv, Streamlets, ye are pleasant things, Whimpling as ye glide. 1849Aytoun Poems, Refusal of Charon iii, Or near some sparkling fountain, Where the waters wimple down! 1879Stevenson Trav. Cevennes 19 You may hear it wimpling over the stones, an amiable stripling of a river.
transf.1896Crockett Grey Man i, A dark train of horsemen..Their line wimpled like a serpent.
7. To move shiftily or unsteadily.
1819J. R. Drake Culprit Fay xix, They struck her keel with jerk and blow,..She wimpled about, in the pale moonbeam, like a feather. 1886Kipling Departm. Ditties etc. (1888) 73 When comes the licht That wimples on his face?
▪ III. wimple
occas. var. wimble. |