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Webster 1913 Edition
Forwrap
For-wrap′
,Verb.
T.
To wrap up; to conceal.
[Obs.]
All mote be said and nought excused, nor hid, nor
forwrapped
. Chaucer.
Definition 2024
forwrap
forwrap
English
Verb
forwrap (third-person singular simple present forwraps, present participle forwrapping, simple past and past participle forwrapped)
- (transitive, archaic) To wrap up or about; muffle.
- 1782, John Bell, Bell's edition:
- "Why art thou all forwrapped save thy face? Why livest thou so long in so great age?"
- 1994, Vivien Thomas, William Tydeman, Christopher Marlowe:
- The great tamburlaine, that reigned not so many years hence, a captain no less bloody than valiant, which also subdued so many countries and provinces, being demanded why he so more than tyrannously used his captives, whereunto he answered, forwrapped [deeply suffused] in choler: [...]
- 1782, John Bell, Bell's edition: