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grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.

To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot.

ached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

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

The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

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

To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle. Addison.

fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it eventlyin a swath.

To clothe; to swathe; to invest. I girded thee about with fine linen. Ezek. xvi. 10. The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence. Milton.

te of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen. Addison.

See Swath.

A swath. [Obs.] Tusser.

A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. Coleridge.

To take a swaddle from; to unswathe.

or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker. [Prov. Eng.]