wreath

noun

1. 1

   Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.

   a wreath of smoke a wreath of clouds

   The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

2. 2

   An ornamental circular band made, for example, of plaited flowers and leaves, and used as decoration; a garland or chaplet, especially one given to a victor.

   So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.

3. 3

   A defect in glass.

4. 4

   An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest; an orle, a torse. It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the coat of arms.

verb

1. 1

   Variant of wreatheAlternative spelling of wreathe.

   Sale) or Salovv a kind of vvoodde like VVyllovv, fit to vvreath and bynde in leapes to catch fiſh vvithall.

   [T]o wreſt the will of man, or to wreath his hearte to our humours, it is not in the compaſſe of Arte, but in the power of the moſt higheſt.

   [F]or griefe his hart did grate, / And from ſo heauie ſight his head did vvreath, / Accuſing fortune, and too cruell fate, / VVhich plonged had faire Lady in ſo vvretched ſtate.

   [Y]ou haue learn'd (like Sir Protheus) to vvreath your Armes like a Male-content: […]

Forms

plural

wreaths

past tense

wreathed

past participle

wreathed

present participle

wreathing

third person singular

wreaths