wrangler (ranggler)

[ True, true, ever at odds: They were the common talke of the towne for a paire of wranglers . Brome , Sparagus Garden, i. 1. You should be free and pleasant in every answer and behaviour, rather like well-bred gentlemen in polite conversation than like noisy and contentious wranglers . Watts , Improvement of Mind, I. xiii. § 20. I burn to set th' imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utt'rance once again. wrapper ME. wrappen, also wlappen (with I for r), > E. lap: see lap3, laps, and cf. envelop, develop.] 1. To roll or fold toget together, as a pliable or flexible object: usually with the preposition around (or round ) or about: as, to wrap paper about a book. This said, he took his mantle's foremost part, He gan the same together fold and wrap . Fairfaz Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant, Thanatopsis. 2. To envelop; surround; cover by winding something round in folds; muffle: often with up: as, to wrap up a child in its blanket; to wrap the body in flannels. As a weizh woful he wrapped him ther-inne, For no man that he met his mornyng schuld knowe. William of Palerne (E. E. T. 8.), L. 746. The Sara zines wrappen here Hedes in white lynnene Clothe. Mandeville , Travels, p. 109. I,... wrapp'd in mist Of midnight vapour, glide secure. The mother. Milton , P. L., ix. 158. Then brought a mantle down and wrapt her in it. Tennyson, Geraint. 3. To cover and fasten securely, as in paper or pack-sheet, in order to protect from injury or injurious exposure, as in transit or during stor- age, or in order to conceal: generally with up : as, to wrap up an umbrella or a book to send by expre ; to wrap up one's things in a bun- dle.-4. To conceal by involving or envelop- ing; hide in a ma of different character; cover up or involve generally. (b) Engro ed in or with; entirely devoted to: as, she is wrapped up in her son; he is wrapped up in his studies. O then, O, first for your own royal sake, And next for ours, wrapp'd up in you, beware Of his Designs in time. J. Beaumont , Psyche, v. 152. The state pedant is wrapt up in news, and lost in pol i- tics. Add is on , Spectator, No. 105 As thy great men are fighters and wranglers , so thy mighty things upon the earth and sea are troublesome and intractable incumbrances. Landor , Imag. Conv., Diogenes and Plato. 21. A stubborn opponent or adversary. Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler That all the courts of France will be disturb'd With chaces. Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 264. 3. In Cambridge University, one who has attained the first cla in the elementary division of the public examination for honors in pure and mixed mathematics, commonly called the mathematical tripos, those who compose the second rank of honors being designated senior optimes, and those of the third order junior optimes. The student taking absolutely the first place in the mathematical tripos used to be called the senior wrangler, those following next in the same division being respectively termed second, third, fourth, etc., wranglers. But in the final examination now, to which only wranglers are admitted, the names are arranged in divisions alphabetically. The name is derived from the public disputations in which candidates for degrees were until recent times required to exhibit their powers. Compare tripos. Maule was senior wrangler and senior medallist at Cambridge, and is a lawyer. Greville , Memoirs, Jan. 2, 1831. wranglership (rang'gler-ship), n. [ wrangler + -ship .] In Cambridge University, the position or rank of a wrangler. wranglesome (rang'gl-sum), a . [ wrangle +-some.] Contentious; quarrelsome. Halli well.