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Now, with full sails into the port I move. 
And safely can unlade my breast of love; 
Quiet and calm: why should I then go back. 
To tempt the second hazard of a wrack ? Dry den. 
Ruin; destruction. This is the true Saxon meaning.—A 
world devote to universal wrack. Milton. 
To WRACK, ». a. To destroy in the water; to wreck. 
See Wreck. It seems in Milton to mean to rock, to shake. 
Each on his rock transfix’d, the spot and prey 
Of wracking whirlwinds. Milton. 
To torture; to torment. This is commonly written rack; 
and the instrument of torture, always rack. 
Merab rejoic’d in her wrack'd lover’s pain, 
And fortify’d her virtue with disdain. Cowley. 
WRA'CKFUL, adj. Ruinous; destructive.—Ships—with 
wrackfull tempests rent. Drayton. 
WRACLAWEK, a town of Poland, on the Vistula; 33 
miles west-north-west of Plock. Population 2300. 
WRAGBY, a market-town of England, in Lincolnshire, 
nearly in the centre of the county, and pleasantly seated on a 
small stream which falls into the Witham. Here is a free- 
school, founded in 1633, with a chapel, and an alms-house 
for six clergymen’s widows, and six other destitute persons. 
Market on Thursday, and two considerable fairs, on Holy 
Thursday and Michaelmas day; 11 miles east of Lincoln. 
Population 509. 
WRAGBY, a parish of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire; 5 miles from Wakefield. 
WRAGHOLME, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Grainthorpe, Lincolnshire. 
WRAITH, s. [etymology unknown.] The apparition of 
a person about to die, as pretended in parts of the north. 
Grose. —The wraith or spectral appearance of a person 
shortly to die, is a firm article in the creed of Scottish su¬ 
perstition. Nor is it unknown to our sister kingdom. See 
the story of the beautiful Lady Diana Rich, in Aubrey’s 
Miscell. p. 89. Scott. 
WRAMPLINGHAM, a parish of England, in Norfolk, 
near Wymondham. 
WRANGELSOE, a small island of European Russia, in 
the Baltic. 
To WRANGLE, v. n. [etymology unknown.] To dis¬ 
pute peevishly; to quarrel perversely; to altercate; to squab¬ 
ble. 
Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, 
And I would call it fair play. Shakspeare. 
Some unhatch’d practice 
Hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases, 
Men’s natures wrangle with inferiour things, 
Though great ones are their object. Shakspeare. 
Fill’d with the sense of age, the fire of youth, 
A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth. Pope. 
WRANGLE, s. A quarrel; a perverse dispute.—The 
giving the priest a right to the tithe would produce lawsuits 
and wrangles. Swift. 
WRANGLE, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 9 
miles north-east of Boston. Population 843. 
WRANGLER, s. A perverse, peevish, disputative man. 
Tell him h’ath made a match with such a wrangler, 
That all the courts of France will be disturb’d 
With chases. Shakspeare. 
To WRAP, v. a. Pret. and part. pass, wrapped or wrapt, 
[wrajj/a, Danish; w raffia sammen, implicare; reifar, Icel. 
fasciis involvere; reifar, fascire. Sereniusi] To roll toge¬ 
ther ; to complicate. 
This said, he took his mantle’s foremost part, 
He ’gan the same together fold and wrap. Fairfax. 
To involve; to cover with something rolled or thrown 
round. It has often the particle up intensive. 
Nilus opens wide 
His arms, and ample bosom to the tide. 
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And spreads his mantle o’er the winding coast; 
In which he wraps his queen, and hides the flying host. 
Dryden. 
To comprise; to contain.'—Leontine’s young wife, in 
whom all his happiness was wrapt up, died in a few days 
after the death of her daughter. Addison. 
To Wrap up. To involve totally. 
Some dear cause 
Will in concealment wrap me up a while; 
When I am known aright, you shall not grieve 
Lending me this acquaintance. Shakspeare. 
[It is often corruptly written for rap or rape, from rapio, 
Latin.] To snatch up miraculously.—Whatever things were 
discovered to St. Paul, when he was wrapped up into the 
third heaven, all the description he makes is, that there are 
such things as eye hath not seen, ear heard, nor hath it en¬ 
tered into the heart of man to conceive. Locke. —To trans¬ 
port ; to put in extasy: for rapt. 
Much more the reverent sire prepar’d to say. 
Wrapp'd with his joy ; how the two armies lay. Cowley. 
[Perhaps the following passage should properly be rapped; 
though wrapped is now frequently used in this sense.]— 
Wrap'd in amaze the matrons wildly stare. Dryden. 
WRA'PPER, s. One that wraps. That in which any 
thing is wrapped.—My arms were pressed to my sides, and 
my legs closed together by so many wrappers, that I looked 
like an Egyptian mummy. Addison. 
WRAPPING, s. That in which any thing is wrapped. 
—The sheep that is near at hand, gives us shelter enough 
from the cold; why should we hunt after more costly furs 
and wrappings ? Bp. Rainbow. 
WRATH, s. [ppaS, Saxon; Horne Tooke pronounces 
it the past participle of the Saxon ppiSan, torquere, to 
writhe .] Anger; fury ; rage. 
Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring 
Of woes unnumber’d heav’nly goddess, sing. Pope. 
WRATH, Cape, a dangerous promontory of Scotland, in 
Sutherland, being the north-west corner of the mainland of 
Scotland. Lat. 58. 40. N. long. 4. 58. W. 
WRA'THFUL, adj. Angry; furious; raging.—How 
now, your wrathful weapons drawn ! Shakspeare. 
WRA'THFULLY, adv. Furiously; passionately. 
-Gentle friends, 
Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully. Shakspeare. 
WRA'THLESS, adj. Free from anger. 
Before his feet, so sheep and lions lay. 
Fearless and wrathless, while they heard him play. Waller. 
WRATTING, Great and Little, adjoining parishes of 
England, in Suffolk; about 6 miles west-by-north of Clare. 
WRATTING, West, a parish of England, in Cambridge; 
47 miles north-by-east of Linton. Population 586. 
WRAWBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 2 miles 
north-east of Glanford Bridge. 
To WRAWL, v. n. To cry as a cat. 
Some were of dogs that barked day and night. 
And some of cats that wrawling still did cry. Spenser. 
WRAXALL, a parish of England, in Dorsetshire; 6J miles 
west-by-south of Bristol. 
WRAXALL, North, a parish of England, in Wiltshire; 
7 miles west-by-north of Chippenham. 
WRAXALL, South, a hamlet in the above county; 6 
miles west-by-north of Melksham. 
WRAXHALL, a parish of England, in Dorsetshire; 8 
miles from Beaminster. 
WRAY, or Wrea, a township of England, in Lancashire, 
near Kirkham. 
WRAY, another township in the above county; 10J miles 
north-east of Lancaster. Population 623. 
WRAY, a hamlet of England, in Cumberland; 6 miles 
south-east of Carlisle. 
WRAYTON, a township of England, in Lancashire; 13 
miles north-east of Lancaster. 
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