transitive. To surround closely, encircle, encompass, ‘hug’. Also with about, in.

transitive. To encircle with extended arms.

To encircle with or enclose in something passed round and in contact; †to wrap up; †to embrace, enfold in the arms; now, in ordinary prose use…

To confine or enclose (the body, or some part of it) by something fastened closely round; to bind or tie up; to gird; to fasten up (the hair) with…

To entwine, encircle, surround; to clasp, enclose. literal and figurative.

To tie (a number of things) so as to hold them together, or to form them into a single mass; esp. to tie up (sheaves of corn).

To take hold of by means of encircling parts; to hold closely by closing round; loosely and poetic to environ, surround, enfold.

transitive. To embrace. literal and figurative. Obsolete.

To embrace, clasp tightly.

intransitive. To wrap, circle about. Obsolete.

transitive. To hold in or as in a clasp or embrace; to clasp tightly; also figurative.

transitive. To clasp with a twist.

To surround like a chain; to embrace. Obsolete.

transitive. To clasp, enclose, embrace.

transitive. To encircle with, or as with, a corslet.

in same sense.

transferred. To surround closely, enfold, embrace.

To clasp as a twining plant; to enfold, embrace. Also figurative.

To enfold, embrace.

transitive. In extended use. To wrap or tie something tightly around, esp. so as to compress, constrain, or constrict; (occasionally) spec. to…