To wind (sth. around a part of the body), wrap; ~ (al) abouten, ~ bouten.

(a) To wrap (sth. in a material), cover; also, obscure (sth.); conceal (sth. with a covering), veil; ppl. wrappede as adj.: obscured; (b) fig. to conceal (sth. in or under the guise of sth. else), disguise, hide; ~ in errour (under humble chere, etc.); ~ in, obfuscate (an argument) [1st quot.].

(a) To wrap (sb.) up for warmth or protection; wrap (sb. or oneself in or with a garment, coverlet, etc.) for adornment or protection, clothe, garb; also fig.; also, garb (oneself in sackcloth or a hair shirt) for penitential purposes; (b) to bind up (a bird) with bandages; bind (a part of the body with cloths, bands of fabric, etc.); wrap (an infant in swaddling clothes), swaddle (a child); enshroud (a body in a winding sheet).

(a) To envelop (sb., sth., or a part of the body in a substance), surround (with sth.); also in fig. context [quot. a1382, 2nd]; cause (sth., a part of the body) to be covered (in or with sth.); also, surround (a part of the body), enclose [quot. c1475]; ben wrappede amonges, be lodged in a medium of (gravel), be embedded in; (b) to immerse (oneself in a liquid medium); plunge (a part of the body into sth.); cause (sb.) to be submerged (in sth.); (c) ben) wrappede, fig. or in fig. context: to be) plunged (into an unhappy state), be) beset or surrounded (by woe, dread, etc.); enveloped (in or with joy, well-being, etc.), surrounded.

(a) To entrap (a bird in a net), entangle, enmesh; also, fig. tangle (sb. in Fortune’s chain, someone’s wits in his finery); (b) fig. to entrap (sb. in sth.); allow (oneself) to become caught up (in one’s sins, one’s own rhetoric, etc.); ben wrappede in (with), be consumed by (sin, strong emotion, worldly delights, etc.), be given over to, be involved in.

(a) To fold (sth., the body) up or back upon itself, roll up, coil;—also refl. [last quot.]; enfold (one thing inside another); of a bird: fold (its mate under its wings); ~ togeder; ppl. wrappede, of a scroll: rolled up; folded; folded up (inside sth.); (b) to roll about, revolve; roll (sth.) around or over [quot. a1500 Add.37075 Gloss.]; ben wrappede, be rolled out; (c) fig. to interconnect (separate events); ~ in frend, refl. ?join oneself to (one’s) friend; ~ togeder, join (transgressions); commingle (persons); also, construe (words).

Ppl. wrappede, mistransl. of L veluti [construed as velati].