swabblel (swobl)

[ Swabian (swa'bi-an), a. and n. [Also Suabian; I got on my best straw-coloured stockings, And swaddled them over to zave charges, I. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 2. You are both, believe me, Two arrant knaves; and, were it not for taking So just an execution from his hands You have belied thus, I would swaddle ye Till I could draw off both your skins like scabbards. Beau. and Fl . , Captain, ii. 2. swaddle band (swod'l-band), n. [ swethel- band ; swaddle + band1 .] Same as swaddling- band. Mas singer , Unnatural Combat, iv. 2. The shoveler- swaddlebillt (swod'l-bil), n. duck, Spatula clype at a . J. Lawson, 1709; T. Pennant , 1785. swaddler (swod'ler), n. [ swaddle + -er1.] A contemptuous name applied by Roman Catho- lics in Ireland to the early Methodists: said to have originated from a sermon preached on the infant Christ "wrapped in swaddling-clothes." [Slang.] To revive Sir W. Petty's colony by importing northern Presbyterians and Cornish Swaddlers . The Academy , May 11, 1889, p. 317. swaddling (swod'ling), n. [Early mod. E. also swadling ; swadiling , swat heling ; verbal n. of swaddle , v.] 1. The act of wrapping in a swaddle.-2. Swaddling-clothes: also in plural. There he in clothes is wrapp'd, in manger laid, To whom too narrow swadlings are our spheres. Drummond , Flowers of Sion.