[f. WRAP v. + -ING2.] That wraps, covers or envelops. Also fig.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 50. In vayne Laocoon … Is to sone embayed with wrapping girdle y coompast.
a. 1586. Sidney, Ps. XXXI. ii. Preserve me from the wyly wrapping nett, Which they for me … have sett.
1813. [Leigh Hunt], in Examiner, 31 May, 351/1. Give me … a small wrapping silence about me.
1869. Daily News, 13 Oct. The necessity of plunging through a deep gulph of air before one meets the wrapping and oblivious wave.
Hence † Wrappingly adv., disguisedly. Obs.–1
1649. Canne, Snare Broken, 12. It would not have been so ambiguously, darkly, wrappingly given forth.
