Definition of Inwrapping

1. inwrap [v] - See also: inwrap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inwrapping

inwit
inwith
inwits
inwone
inwood
inwork
inworked
inworking
inworks
inworn
inwound
inwove
inwoven
inwrap
inwrapped
inwrapping (current term)
inwraps
inwreathe
inwreathed
inwreathes
inwreathing
inwrit
inwrite
inwrought
inyala
inyalas
inyanga
inyangas
inyoite
inyoites

Literary usage of Inwrapping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1853)
"... sunk transported on the conscious bed. Down rush'd the toils, inwrapping as they lay The careless lovers in their wanton play: 340 * Cytherea, Venus. ..."

2. The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations by District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Commerce Court, Courts of Appeals (1890)
"Whether running at six miles or less, the engineer could not have seen any better through the inwrapping smoke nor against the glare of the head-light, ..."

3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Bud-scales numerous, about 10, successively inwrapping, the inner ones accrescent, becoming thin and membranaceous and rather tardily deciduous; ..."

4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1851)
"... the evil passions which they are nourishing to-day, will be burning unquenchable in the immortal soul, and inwrapping it as in sheets of eternal fire. ..."

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