envelop machine (envelupmashen")

A power-machine for making envelops for letters. It cuts the blanks from a continuous roll of paper, bends them into shape, and gums, folds, and pre es the edges together. The machine Column Ducally Crowned and Enveloped by a Snake. envelop (en-vel'up), v. t .; pret. and pp. envel- oped , ppr. enveloping . [Also envelope , and for- merly invelop , invelope ; envolupen , envoli- pen (rare), envoluper , enveloper , envelop per (mod. F. envelop per = Pr. envolopar , envolupar , envelopar = It. inviluppare , formerly also ingo- luppare ), wrap up, envelop, veloper , wrap (a verb found also in desveloper , etc., E. develop , q. v.); the forms cited point to an orig. type # vlopp- , which must be of OLG. origin, namely, from the verb corresponding to ME. wlappen (> mod. E. lap3 ), another form of wrap- pen (> mod. E. wrap ), wrap, envelop: see lap3 , wrap . Thus envelop is a Rom. doublet of inwrap , enwrap .] 1. To cover, as by wrapping or fold through their envelopments . ing; inwrap; invest with or as with a covering; surround entirely; cover on all sides. then gums the edge of the fla, dries the gum, folds the flap, counts the finished envelops into bundles of twenty five, delivers them, and records the total count. Some chine. The capacity of a good machine is estimated at 120 envelops a minute, or 72,000 in one day. envelopment (en-vel'up-ment), n. [OF. en velopement, F. enveloppement Pr.envolopament, evolopament = It. inviluppamento; as envelop + -ment.] 1. The act of enveloping, or of inwrapping or covering on all sides. - 2. A wrapper or covering; anything that surrounds, inwraps, or conceals. times blanks are first cut to in a separate ma I rede that our host heer shal biginne, For he is most envoluped in sinne. Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale (ed. Skeat), 1. 942, Is not every great question already enveloped in a sufficiently dark cloud of unmeaning words? Macaulay , West. Reviewer's Def. of Mill. They have found so many contrary senses in the same text that it is become difficult to see any sense at all Search, Free Will (1763), Pref. His thoughts are like mummies,. wrapped about with curious envelopments . Long fellow , Hyper i on, i. 5. envenimet, v. t. An obsolete form of envenom . envenom (en-ven'um), v . t. [Formerly also en venome, in venom, invenome; envenimen , envenymen, also anvenimen , anvempnen , envenimer , envelimer , F. envenimer = Pr. enveri 2. To form a covering about; lie around and nar, everinar = Sp. Pg. envenenar = It. invele conceal. IMG:content-0573.png:[blocks in formation] of a subject and predicate; a categorical proposition: opposed to composite enunciation.