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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wreathe \Wreathe\, v. t. [imp. {Wreathed}; p. p. {Wreathed};
Archaic {Wreathen}; p. pr & vb n. {Wreathing}.] [See
{Wreath}, n.] [Written also {wreath}.]
1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about to turn.
[Obs.]
And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe.
--Spenser.
2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to
entwine.
The nods and smiles of recognition into which this
singular physiognomy was wreathed. --Sir W.
Scott.
From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve
Down dropped. --Milton.
3. To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to
encircle; to infold.
Each wreathed in the other's arms. --Shak.
Dusk faces with withe silken turbants wreathed.
--Milton.
And with thy winding ivy wreathes her lance.
--Dryden.
4. To twine or twist about to surround; to encircle.
In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell
adders hiss. --Prior.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wreathed
adj : adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as
combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel";
"wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed
round with daisies"; "smoke-wreathed" [syn: {encircled},
{ringed}]
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