Definition of wreath

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Wreath (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms..

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Wreathless :: Wreathless (a.) Destitute of a wreath.
Wreathe :: Wreathe (n.) To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold.
Bucranium :: Bucranium (n.) A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc..
Orle :: Orle (n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest..
Crowned :: Crowned (p. p. & a.) Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected..
Crown :: Crown (n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward..
Inwreathe :: Inwreathe (v. t.) To surround or encompass as with a wreath.
Entwine :: Entwine (v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round..
Bryozoum :: Bryozoum (n.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.)..
Wreathen :: Wreathen (a.) Twisted; made into a wreath.
Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla..
Intwine :: Intwine (v. t.) To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined..
Willow :: Willow (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight. Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow..
Wreathy :: Wreathy (a.) Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths..
Wreathe :: Wreathe (v. i.) To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower of wreathing trees..
Unplat :: Unplat (v. t.) To take out the folds or twists of, as something previously platted; to unfold; to unwreathe..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball..
Tortility :: Tortility (n.) The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed..
Torqued :: Torqued (a.) Wreathed; twisted.
Enwreathe :: Enwreathe (v. t.) See Inwreathe.
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