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To place in a sphere; to envelop. His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. Chapman.

To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak.

To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.

To wrap up; to envelop. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To envelop. See Inwrap.

Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope. Shuckford.

A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.

elonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. Martyn. Floral envelope (Bot.), the calyx and corolla, one or the other of which (mostly the corolla) may be wanting.

inary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.

mplete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

To envelop, as with fog; to befog; to overcast; to darken; to obscure.

To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace. A face folded in sorrow. J. Webster. We will descend and fold him in our arms. Shak.

To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. [Obs.] King.

Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc. Knight.

A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.

The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.

(Phys. Geog.) The aqueous envelope of the earth, including the ocean, all lakes, streams, and underground waters, and the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere.

e mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.