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Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing glory crowned. Milton.

wist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. Milton.

A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiæ on the back.

To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shak.

his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers. Macaulay.

city; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.

Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of flowers; as, floral games, wreaths.

those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath. Sir W. Scott. Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. -- Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water i…

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

llish and dignify. Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. Pope. We are graced with wreaths of victory. Shak.

Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural. In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. Pope.

To encircle to gird; to engirt. The wreath is ivy that ingirts our beams. Drayton.

To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring. Pope.

To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [Written also entwine.]

poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] (b) Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose business was to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet officially distinguished by such honorary…

Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate. [Written also laurelled.]

Lit., wreath of songs; -- used as the title of a group of songs, and esp. as the common name for German vocal clubs of men.