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▪ I. wrapping, vbl. n.|ˈræpɪŋ|
[f. wrap v. + -ing1. App. rare between the 16th and 19th cent.]
1. a. The action of covering with or enveloping in a wrap or wrapper. Occas. with advs., as round, up. Also fig.
c1440Promp. Parv. 533/1 Wrappynge, or hyllynge, coopercio, involucio. 1553Brende Q. Curtius 170 Which [arrow] he pulled out and without wrappinge of his wound called for his horse. 1611Cotgr., Emmaillotement, a swadling, or a wrapping in swathe bands. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 73 A wrapping round of inconvenient considerations with an inpenetrable cloud of the plainest-seeming words. 1872March. Dufferin Canad. Jrnl. (1891) 52 The children play in the snow... Their nurse, Mrs. Hall, dislikes the wrapping up.
b. The action of interlacing or intertwining; the fact of being interwoven. Also fig.
1553Brende Q. Curtius 105 By reason that the wreathing and wrappinge togither of the bowes kept them of from the bodies of the tres. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Implexus, A wrappyng of armes crosse one within an other. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. iii. (1852) 70 Yet this artful wrapping together of the one with the other, this blending of things so dissimilar, will not accomplish the object designed.
2. a. Something used or designed for enveloping or wrapping up; a wrap or covering. Also in fig. context.
1387Trevisa Higden I. 9 My witt is ful luyte to un-wralle þe wrappyinges of so wonder werkes. 1388Wyclif Wisd. vii. 4 Y was nurschid in wrappyngis, and is greet bisynesses. 1855[G. R. Leifchild] Cornwall 298 The wearing of thin shoes and stockings during unsuitable weather, being a dangerous transition from the thick shoes and wrapping worn by the same persons in daily work. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 775/2 Broken leaf tobacco..firmly wrapped round with one or two wrappings of whole leaf tobacco. 1883Gilmour Among Mongols xvii. 201 The volumes are..carefully swathed up in their yellow wrappings. 1894‘J. S. Winter’ Red Coats 78 Dolly was eagerly tearing the paper wrappings off the big box of sweeties.
fig.1836Arnold in Stanley Life (1844) II. 28 Having been enabled to receive Scripture truth in spite of the wrapping which has been put round it. 1901F. Campbell Love 319 Hidebound in a wrapping of utter selfishness.
b. An article of dress used or intended for enveloping the figure; a loose covering or upper garment; a wrap, wrappage, or wrapper.
1635Rainbow Serm. 15 The sheepe..gives us shelter enough from the cold, why should we hunt after more costly furres and wrappings? 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. iii, A gentleman in the coach who..looked very large in a quantity of wrappings. 1882T. Coan Hawaii 35, I..preached in wet clothes, continuing my..labors until night, when in dry wrappings I slept well. 1899Rodway Guiana Wilds 30 No stiff wooden figure made up of corset and wrappings, but a woman of flesh and blood.
3. a. attrib. in sense of ‘used or designed for wrapping or covering’, as wrapping-cloth, wrapping-silk, wrapping-wire; † wrapping boot U.S., form of boot adapted for wrapping about the ankle and calf; wrapping-paper, a special make of strong paper for packing or wrapping up parcels.
1566Eng. Ch. Furniture (Peacock, 1866) 75 A cup of sylver for the communion with ij wrappinge clothes for yt. 1648Hexham ii, Een Windel.., a Wrapping-cloath. 1715Pope Let. in Corr. (1956) I. 317 If the Fruit is not so good as I wish, let the Gallantry of this Wrapping⁓paper make up for it. 1768J. Lyndon Let. 17 June in Rec. Colony of Rhode Island (1861) VI. 548 One paper mill, at which is manufactured wrapping, package and other coarse paper. 1789Deb. Congr. U.S. (1834) 1st Congress 1 Sess. App. 2130 The several duties shall be aid on the following goods... On all writing, printing and wrapping paper. 1808Pike Sources of the Mississippi (1810) iii. App. 41 Their dress is..the wrapping boot with the jack boot, and permanent spur over it. 1828–32Webster, Wrapping paper. 1842Faraday Chem. Manip. (ed. 3) 470 Strong common brown wrapping paper. 1860Rimbault Pianoforte 183 Modern pianofortes have steel wire throughout, with about one octave in the bass closely lapped. The wrapping wire is of soft iron for the upper part of the octave, and of copper for the lower. 1883Daily News 24 Apr. 5/8 The four main cables are 153/4 inches in diameter... There are 243 miles 493 feet of wrapping wire on each. 1883W. D. Curzon Manuf. Industries Worcs. 80 The manufacture of the heavy and coarse sorts of wrapping paper. 1890Cent. Dict. s.v. Silk, Wrapping-silk, a fine strong floss employed in the manufacture of artificial flies.
b. In sense of ‘used or worn as a wrapper or enveloping outer garment’, as wrapping cloak, wrapping coat, wrapping mantle, wrapping pelisse, wrapping robe. Also wrapping-gown.
1787F. Burney Diary 8 Nov., What was my surprise to see a large man, in an immense wrapping greatcoat, buttoned up round his chin! 1800Lady's Monthly Museum Nov. V. 408 White muslin wrapping robe, with full sleeves. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxi, His dress [was] a horseman's wrapping coat. 1824Meyrick Ant. Armour II. 11 The birrus or large wrapping cloak. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain x, The large wrapping man's cloak which she wore. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 198 He came, and to the floor he cast His wrapping mantle.
c. With advs., as wrapping up department.
1883W. D. Curzon Manuf. Industries Worcs. 101 [In] the wrapping up department..girls are busily engaged wrapping goods of all kinds.
▪ II. ˈwrapping, ppl. a.
[f. wrap v. + -ing2.]
That wraps, covers, or envelops. Also fig.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 50 In vayne Laocoon..Is to sone embayed with wrapping girdle y coompast. a1586Sidney Ps. xxxi. ii, Preserve me from the wyly wrapping nett, Which they for me..have sett. 1813[Leigh Hunt] in Examiner 31 May 351/1 Give me..a small wrapping silence about me. 1869Daily News 13 Oct., The necessity of plunging through a deep gulph of air before one meets the wrapping and oblivious wave.
Hence † ˈwrappingly adv., disguisedly. Obs.—1
1649Canne Snare Broken 12 It would not have been so ambiguously, darkly, wrappingly given forth. |