| 单词 | swathing | 
| 释义 | swathingn. 1.  The action of swathe v.; wrapping or binding up; swaddling. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > 			[noun]		 > swathing swathing1375 rollingc1450 swaddlingc1522 enswathement1877 1375   [implied in:   Creation 763 in  Horstm. Altengl. Leg. 		(1878)	 133  				A ȝong child..In þe swaþyng cloutis wounde. (at swathing-clouts n.)]. c1440    Promptorium Parvulorum 482/1  				Swathynge of chyldyr. 1650    J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 185  				The Pergamites..had a great affectation..in streight swathing of their children. 1684    tr.  T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician  viii. 272  				Swathing egregiously stops Bleeding. 1698    J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 198  				They use no swathing to their Babes. 1796    J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. 		(new ed.)	 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.  concrete. That with which something is swathed; a wrapping; a bandage; a swaddling-band; also figurative. (Most commonly in plural.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > 			[noun]		 > a wrapping > a swathing sindon1577 swathe1598 swathing-band1615 swathing1652 1652    C. Cotterell tr.  G. de Costes de La Calprenède 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. a1711    T. Ken Sion  i, in  Wks. 		(1721)	 IV. 333  				To..heal each Wound, Which there is with soft Swathing bound. 1829    S. Cooper Good's Study Med. 		(ed. 3)	 II. 630  				Flannel swathing around the body. 1860    J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps  ii. iii. 246  				Were the earth unfurnished with this atmospheric swathing. 1884    J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 58  				The women in a blue calico swathing. 1904    E. A. T. W. Budge Guide 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 117  				The linen swathings of mummified bodies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2019). swathingadj.  That swathes; enveloping, enwrapping. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > 			[adjective]		 > swathing sheeting1592 swathing1844 1844    E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 1943 in  Poems I  				The slow procession of the swathing seas. 1890    R. Bridges Shorter Poems  v. xv. 15  				No bud had burst its swathing hood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2019). <  | 
	
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