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To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie.

The act of wrapping.

One who, or that which, wraps.

A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.

To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.

To envelop. See Inwrap.

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

To wrap up; to conceal. [Obs.] All mote be said and nought excused, nor hid, nor forwrapped. Chaucer.

To cover by wrapping; to involve; to infold; as, to inwrap in a cloak, in smoke, etc.

To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded. Chaucer.

A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.

To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.

in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

e. -- Brown holland. See under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor. --…

stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.

bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.

per. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolsap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering o…