enwind
English
Verb
enwind (third-person singular simple present enwinds, present participle enwinding, simple past and past participle enwound)
- (transitive) To wind about (something); to encircle.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 29:
- Love, the third, / Between us, in the circle of his arms / Enwound us both; […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enwind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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