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To surround or encompass as with a wreath. [Written also enwreathe.] Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.

See Jet. [Obs.]

A kind of early apple. [Written also jenneting.]

To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.

See Creatic.

See Creatin.

See Creatinin.

Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath…

State, or office, of a laureate.

The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.

An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.

To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.] G. Eliot.

erate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.

An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.

The friar bird.

Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.

The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.

Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.

Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines; as, a lineate leaf.