v. t. To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. swaðu a track, trace; akin to D. zwaad, zwad, zwade, a swath of grass, G. schwad, schwaden; perhaps, originally, a shred. Cf. Swathe, v. t. ]
Swath bank,
v. t.
Their children are never swathed or bound about with any thing when they are first born. Abp. Abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A bandage; a band; a swath. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wrapped me in above an hundred yards of swathe. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
Milk and a swathe, at first, his whole demand. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
The solemn glory of the afternoon, with its long swathes of light between the far off rows of limes. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Swath, n. ] (Agric.) A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + swathe. ] To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]