enwind, inwind, v.
(ɛn-, ɪnˈwaɪnd)
[f. en-1 + wind v.]
trans. To wind itself around (something); to surround as with windings or coils. Also, to make into a coil. lit. and fig.
| 1850 Mrs. Browning Poems II. 245 A sound, a sense of music..Softly, finely, it inwound me. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. xcviii, Let her great Danube rolling fair Enwind her isles, unmark'd of me. 1859 ― Guinevere 598 The moony vapour rolling round the king..Enwound him fold by fold. 1876 Swinburne Erechth. 806 With what blossomless flowerage of sea-foam and blood-coloured foliage inwound. 1877 M. Arnold Fragm. Antigone Poems II. 40 The bond Original, deep-inwound, Of blood. |
Hence enˈwinding vbl. n.
| 1598 Florio, Falde..a folding, an inwinding or a plaiting of a garment. 1697 View Penal Laws 257 Neither he or any other shall make any Inwinding within the Fleece. |