wrangling (ranggling)

[ Much wrangling they had, but at last they confirmed him according to promise eight shares of Land; and so he was dismi ed of his charge, with shew of fauour and much friendship. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 132. We may read what wrangling the Bishops and Monks had about the reading or not reading of Origen. Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. wrangoust (rang'us), a. A Scotch form of wrap1 (rap), v . t .; pret. and pp. wrapped or wrapt , wrongous. dre intended to be wrapped round the person, as on a journey; a wrapper. In the plural, the word is applied collectively to all coverings used, in addition to the usual clothing, as a defense against the weather, as cloaks, shawls, scarfs, and railway-rugs. Mrs. Aleshine. ready to start forth. wrap2t (rap), v. t . A mi pelling of rap2 . was sitting in her bonnet and wraps , F. R. Stock ton , The Dusantes, iii. The least of these delights, that you devise, Able to wrape and dazzle human eyes. Peele, Arraignment of París, ii. 2. Wrapp'd in amaze, the matrons wildly stare. Dryden, Eneid, v. 840.