wimplen

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === wimplin, wymple === Etymology === From wympel (“a veil, cover, hood”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix); compare Middle Dutch wimpelen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwimplən/ === Verb === wimplen (third-person singular simple present wimpleth, present participle wimplende, wimplynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle wimpled) To conceal (especially with a headcovering or wimple) With fayre honyed wordes heretykes and mis-meninge people skleren and wimplen their errours. — Testament of Love, Thomas Usk (rare) To enter into a ritual involving the wimple being put upon oneself. Rea entred into relegioun, For to be wympled in that hooli hous Sacred to Vesta ... duryng al hir liff. — Fall of Princes, John Lydgate, c1439 (rare) To bend or wrap over itself; to cover while folding. Take soft lynnen cloth & wrape and wymple it togeder and lay it ouer þe wound — Medical Recipes, c1450 ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: wimple ==== References ==== “wimplen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 November 2018.