WRAP, v.t. pret. and pp. wrapped or wrapt. 1. To wind or fold together. John 20.2. To involve; to cover by winding something round; often with up; as, to wrap up a child in its blanket; wrap the body well with flannel in winter.I, wrapt in mist of midnight vapor, glide obscure.3. To involve; to hide; as truth wrapt in tales.4. To comprise; to contain.Leontines young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter.5. To involve totally.Things reflected on in gross and transiently, are thought to be wrapped in impenetrable obscurity.6. To inclose.7. To snatch up; to transport. This is an error. It ought to be rapt. [See Rap and Rapt.]
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