2. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.

3. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to

be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's

wrapper.

Wrap"ras`cal (?), n. A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly

worn.

Wrasse (?), n. [W. gwrachen.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous edible,

marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several

species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of

Europe. Many of the species are bright-colored.

Among the European species are the ballan wrasse (Labrus maculatus),

the streaked wrasse (L. lineatus), the red wrasse (L. mixtus), the

comber wrasse (L. comber), the blue-striped, or cook, wrasse (see

Peacock fish, under Peacock), the rainbow wrasse (L. vulgaris), and the

seawife.

Wras"tle (?), v. i. [OE. wrastlen. See Wrestle.] To wrestle. [Obs. or

Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

Who wrastleth best naked, with oil enoint.

Chaucer.

Wrath (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wraþþe, wrethe, wræððe, AS. wrððo, fr.

wrð wroth; akin to Icel. reiði wrath. See Wroth, a.]

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