Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swaddling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swaddle \Swad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swaddled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Swaddling}.]
1. To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with
clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to
swaddle a baby.
They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces
of linen. --Addison.
2. To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] --Hudibras.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swaddling \Swad"dling\,
a. & n. from {Swaddle}, v.
{Swaddling band}, {Swaddling cloth}, or {Swaddling clout}, a
band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a
newborn infant.
Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,
lying in a manger. --Luke ii. 12.
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