enwind

English

Etymology

en- +‎ wind

Verb

enwind (third-person singular simple present enwinds, present participle enwinding, simple past and past participle enwound)

1. (transitive) To wind about; to encircle.
   • Tennyson

     In the circle of his arms / Enwound us both.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enwind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• winned