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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wrap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrapped or Wrapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrapping.]
 1. To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
    Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.   --John xx. 6, 7.
 Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.   --Bryant.
 2. To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.
 I . . . wrapt in mist
 Of midnight vapor, glide obscure.   --Milton.
 3. To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
    Wise poets that wrap truth in tales.   --Carew.
 To be wrapped up in, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with.
    Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter.   --Addison.
    Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity.   --Locke.