v. [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. Ibid. (1859), Guinevere, 598. The moony vapour rolling round the king … Enwound him fold by fold.
1876. Swinburne, Erechtheus, 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 Enwinding vbl. sb.
1598. Florio, Falde … a folding, an inwinding or a plaiting of a garment.
1697. View of Penal Laws, 257. Neither he or any other shall make any Inwinding within the Fleece.
