v. Obs. Also bi-. For forms see WIND. [Com. Teut.: OE. bewindan, f. be-, bi-, BE- 1 + windan to WIND; cf. Goth. biwindan, OHG. bewintan, mod.G. bewinden.]
1. trans. To wind (a thing) about; to involve, envelop with (bands, etc.).
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxvii. 59. Joseph ʓenam þone lichoman, & bewand hyne mid clænre scytan.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 95. Þe crisme cloð · þe þe prest biwindeð þat child mide.
c. 1280. Christ on Cross, in E. E. P. (1862), 20. Loke to is heued · wiþ þornis al be-wonde.
b. fig.
a. 1000. Beowulf, 6097. Iu-monna gold galdre bewunden.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 11. Ȝet is sume þarfore of unbileue ifild … and swo faste bunden . and swo biwunde þarinne.
c. 1340. Cursor M., 22492. So soiled in oure synne And al biwounden now þer Inne.
2. To wind or twine oneself round.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 87. And þanne ferde þe fule gost . and seuen oðre gostes … and bitrumede þat child … and biwunden it . and biwalden it al.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 295. A gret serpent it hath bewounde.
