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▪ I. swathing, vbl. n.|ˈsweɪðɪŋ|
[f. swathe v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb swathe; wrapping or binding up; swaddling.
1375, etc. [implied in swathing-band, -clothes, -clouts]. c1440Promp. Parv. 482/1 Swathynge of chyldyr. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 185 The Pergamites..had a great affectation..in streight swathing of their children. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 272 Swathing egregiously stops Bleeding. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 198 They use no swathing to their Babes. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 489 The smallness of their feet is reckoned a principal part of their beauty, and no swathing is omitted..to give them that accomplishment.
2. concr. That with which something is swathed; a wrapping; a bandage; a swaddling-band; also fig. (Most commonly in pl.)
1652Sir C. Cotterell tr. Calprenède's Cassandra ii. 132 Putting his hands where he found his hurts paine him, he met with the plaisters and swathings which had bin applyed to them. a1711Ken Sion Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 33 To..heal each Wound, Which there is with soft Swathing bound. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 630 Flannel swathing around the body. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. iii. 246 Were the earth unfurnished with this atmospheric swathing. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 58 The women in a blue calico swathing. 1904Budge 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Mus. 117 The linen swathings of mummified bodies.
▪ II. ˈswathing, ppl. a.
[f. swathe v. + -ing2.]
That swathes; enveloping, enwrapping.
1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile 1943 The slow procession of the swathing seas. 1890R. Bridges Shorter Poems v. xv. 15 No bud had burst its swathing hood. |