wreathe

1. (also figurative) Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.Examples: "[S]he ſtarts like one that ſpies an adder, / VVreath'd vp in fatall folds iuſt in his vvay, / The feare vvhereof doth make him ſhake, & ſhudder, […]"; "[T]he Beards of vvilde Oates, and thoſe of divers other vvilde Plants; […] almoſt continually vvreath and unvvreath themſelves according to, even, the light variations of the temperature of the ambient Air."; "The Guts are oblong, round, hollovv bodies variouſly vvreathed about, joyning vvith the Pylorus and reaching to the Fundament; ſerving to receive the Chylus and the Excrements of the firſt Concoction."Antonyms: uncoil, uncurl, untwist, unwreathealsofigurativelytransitive

2. (also figurative) Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.Examples: "[W]ith Laurels vvreath your poſts, / And ſtrovv vvith Flovv'rs the Pavement; […]"; "Eſcap'd the flaſhing of the noontide hours / VVith one freſh garland of Pierian flovvers / (Ere from thy zephyr-haunted brink I turn) / My languid hand ſhall vvreath thy moſſy urn."; "So, entering London about sunrise, doors and windows were duly wreathed with garlands; and every village in the suburbs had its May-pole, which stood in its place all the year."alsofigurativelytransitive

3. (also figurative) Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.Examples: "Death's Harbingers, lye latent in the Draught: / And in the Flovv'rs that vvreath the ſparkling Bovvl, / Fell Adders hiſs, and poys'nous Serpents roll."; "O'er Diſappointment's vvintry deſart fling / Each flovver, that vvreath'd the devvy locks of Spring, / VVhen bluſhing, like a bride, from Hope's trim bovver / She leapt, avvaken'd by the pattering ſhovver."; ""Come see my everlasting flowers, Small—my flowers that never die." […] The flowers crackled at Anne's touch. "Enough to wreathe the winter's dead," she said with a happy little sigh and, taking a pink bud from the pile, twined it in the lace of her black cap."Synonyms: enwreathe, inwreathealsofigurativelytransitive

4. (also figurative) Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.Examples: "wreathed in mystery"; "At the funeral, a circle of comrades wreathed the grave of the honoured deceased."; "A rayne of teares, a clowde of darke diſdaine / Haue done the weried coardes great hinderance, / Wrethed with errour, and with ignorance. / The ſtarres be hidde, that leade me to this payne."Synonyms: enwreathe, inwreathe, enshroud, surroundAntonyms: unwreathealsofigurativelytransitive

5. (also figurative) Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.Examples: "He had a kercher wreathed aboute his heed: […]"; "[A]bout his necke / A greene and guilded ſnake had vvreath'd it ſelfe, […]"; "Minutius tells vs here, my Lord, / That, a nevv Head being ſet vpon your Statue. / A Rope is ſince found vvreath'd about it; […]"Synonyms: enwreathe, inwreatheAntonyms: unwreathealsofigurativelyreflexivetransitive

6. (also figurative) Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.Examples: "[Y]ou haue learn'd (like Sir Protheus) to vvreath your Armes like a Male-content: […]"; "You do not loue Maria? Longauile, / Did neuer Sonnet for her ſake compile, / Nor neuer lay his vvreathed arms athvvart / His louing boſome, to keepe dovvne his hart."; "Enter Andrugio and Antonio vvreathed together, […]"Synonyms: interwreathealsofigurativelytransitive