wimplen

• wimplin, wymple

From wympel (“a veil, cover, hood”) +‎ -en; compare Middle Dutch wimpelen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwimplən/

wimplen (third-person singular simple present wimpleth, present participle wimplende, simple past and past participle wimpled)

1. 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

2. (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

3. (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

• English: wimple

• “wimplen (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-19.