[f. COCOON sb.1]

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  1.  intr. To form a cocoon.

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1884.  McCook, in Science, III. 685. The whole operation of the lycosid when cocooning. Ibid., 686. The cocooning habits of Lycosa.

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  2.  trans. To swathe as in a cocoon.

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1881.  ‘Mark Twain,’ Tramp Abroad, xxviii. 264. We … cocooned ourselves in the proper red blankets.

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