wrapper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. That in which an object is wrapped or covered, as:
2. n. The material, such as paper, in which something is wrapped: a candy wrapper.
3. n. The material encircling a magazine or newspaper sent by mail.
4. n. A book jacket.
5. n. The tobacco leaf covering a cigar.
6. n. A loose dressing gown or negligee.
7. n. One that wraps, as a store employee who wraps parcels.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who wraps.
2. n. That in which anything is wrapped or inclosed; an outer covering: as, newspaper wrappers.
3. n. Specifically.
4. n. The loose and detachable cover of paper put about a book bound in cloth to preserve its freshness; sometimes, incorrectly, the sewed or pasted cover of a pamphlet.
5. n. Tobacco-leaf specially suited or prepared for covering cigars: distinguished from filler. See filler, 4.
6. n. A loose garment meant to envelop the whole, or nearly the whole, person: applied to both indoor and outdoor garments, such as dressing-gowns, overcoats, and shawls. At certain times the name is used of some special form of garment, though for outdoor garments wrap is much more usual.
7. n. An undershirt.
8. n. In Fungi, same as volva.

Wiktionary

1. n. One who, or that which, wraps.
2. n. Something that is wrapped around something else as a cover or protection: a wrapping.
3. n. A negligée or loose dressing gown.
4. n. computing A construct, such as a class or module, that serves to mediate access to another.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, wraps.
2. n. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering.
3. n. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
2. n. a loose dressing gown for women
3. n. cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person