v. [UN-2 4.] trans. To free from, take out of, swaddling bands or clothes.
1580. North, Plutarch (1595), 382. His wife did vnswadell the young boy to wash and shift him.
1633. B. Jonson, Tale Tub, I. iv. Puppy ha’ scarce unswadled my legges yet.
1662. Greenhalgh, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. IV. 16. When they had brought it to the altar, four or five were busied in uncovering and unswaddling the roll.
1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, I. 184. Standing at the foot of the mattress, we fell back like tragic heroes, so as not to unswaddle our feet in lying down.
fig. 1600. Nashe, Summer’s Last Will, Prol. Their censures we wey not, whose sences are not yet vnswadled.
1631. Fuller, David’s Punishm., vii. As when a tender rose begins to blow, Yet scarce unswaddled is.
