shawl

noun

1. 1

   A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, typically by women.

   She wears her shawl when it's cold outside.

   Just then Norbourne entered the chamber; and, fancying from her attitude that his wife was asleep, he approached softly, and drew a large shawl around her.

   Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

   Jessamy turned. Her uplifted candle showed a dark handsome young women in a black dress. She wore a wide shawl over her head which hung down on either side, only partially hiding a starched, white apron..

2. 2

   A fold of wrinkled flesh under the lips and neck of a bloodhound, used in scenting.

verb

1. 1

   To wrap in a shawl.

   Rebecca was shawling her in an upper apartment , where these two friends had an opportunity for a little of that secret talking and conspiring which forms the delight of female life

Forms

plural

shawls

past tense

shawled

past participle

shawled

present participle

shawling

third person singular

shawls