4. To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.

In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss.

Prior.

Wreathe, v. i. To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a

bower of wreathing trees. Dryden.

Wreath"en (?), a. Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure

gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.

Wreath"less (?), a. Destitute of a wreath.

Wreath"-shell` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See

Turbo.

Wreath"y (?), a. Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of

wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.

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