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† wriels Obs.
Forms: 1 wriᵹels (wyrᵹels), -ils, wriils, 3 wrieles, wriheles, 4 wrielys, 5 wriels (weryels).
[OE. wriᵹels, etc., f. wriᵹ-, ppl. stem of wríon, wréon wry v.1 + -els.]
A covering; a veil. Also fig.
In quots. a 1225 and c 1400 taken as a plural; see -els.
c825Vesp. Psalter ci. 27 Swe swe wriᵹels onwendes hie, & hie bioð onwende. c1000in Assmann Ags. Hom. (1889) 196 He þa his wriᵹels ᵹeopenode. a1225Ancr. R. 320 Of þeos six wrieles despoile þine sunne. a1275Ibid. 420 (MS. Cott. Cleopatra), Wimpel ne hefde, nouðer ne nemned hali write, ah wriheles of heuet. 1382Wyclif Job xxiv. 8 Nakid thei leue men,..whom wederes of hillis moisten, and not hauende wrielys [L. velamen] clippe stones. c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) iv. xxix. 61 They faren right as done weryels of ymages made of clothe, stopped with strawe. |