Crossword clues for wreathed
wreathed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wreathe \Wreathe\, v. t. [imp. Wreathed; p. p. Wreathed; Archaic Wreathen; p. pr. & vb. n. Wreathing.] [See Wreath, n.] [Written also wreath.]
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To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.
And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe.
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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.
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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.
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To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.
In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss.
--Prior.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: wreath)
WordNet
Usage examples of "wreathed".
Made the air sweep in whirlwinds from the shore, Calm as a shade, the boat of that fair child Securely fled, that rapid stress before, Amid the topmost spray, and sunbows wild, Wreathed in the silver mist: in joy and pride we smiled.
The dancers wreathed and grouped in moving patterns, Clustered, receded, streamed, advanced.
wreathed and wreathed among faint memories, Seeking for something, trying to tell me something, Urging to restlessness: verging on grief.
My life arranged before you In scrolls of leaves, rosebuds, violets, ivy, Clustered or wreathed on plate and cup and platter .
Garrick standing beside him, his haughty face wreathed in satisfaction.
Her perfume wreathed them both, incongruous amid the stinks of sickness and betrayal.
He remembered her valor and the lights that wreathed her and her father the night they struck at his assassins.
The night that assassins had stalked him, Leo had seen her and her father wreathed in lights, invoking the archangels to preserve him.
The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough, but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns, when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance, when the time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.
As she looked, her eyes blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile.
What lay below us we could not see, for the landscape was wreathed in billows of morning fog.
Though not visible on the flight of steps, she appeared upon the terraces which she traversed at a run, her hair floating over her shoulders in the breeze from under a broad-brimmed straw hat wreathed with poppies.
Vulcan now burns pitch and wax and other foods for flames, which leap from mast to mast, and the wooden thwarts in the curved hulls are wreathed in acrid smoke!
Master Jeremy Sparrow, relieved of his battered armor, his face wreathed with hospitable smiles, and a posy in his hand.
She dropped into a chair beside the balustrade of the terrace, which was wreathed in wistaria, and looked out upon the vast landscape of the lake.