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e explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.

Covered or wrapped in flannel.

To cover or wrap up; to conceal. Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses. Shak.

A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.

due to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying; -- said of tobacco used for cigar wrappers.

othing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.). Wrapped up in my furs. Lady M. W. Montagu.

To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.

A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.

To clothe; to wrap. The surgeon happed her up carefully. Dr. J. Brown.

Wrapped; covered; cloaked. [Scot.] All happed with flowers in the green wood were. Hogg.

The human skin; -- so called in contempt. O tiger's heart, wrapped in a woman's hide! Shak.

To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] "His head in curls implied." Chapman.

he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light. "Fettered in amorous chains." Shak. Wrapt in sweet sounds, as in bright veils. Shelley.

inactivity. Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. As there is a great truth wrapped up in "diligence," what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word "indolence"! This is from "in" and "doleo," not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain;…

To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore.

To wrap up; to infold; to swathe. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson.

That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope. Sir T. Browne.

ort strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon. Like a hawk, which feeling freed From bells and jesses which did let her flight. Spenser.

To wrap or wind around something. About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk. Sir I. Newton.

A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. Ure. Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.