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Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers. "A wrethe of gold." Chaucer. [He] of his tortuous train Curled many a wanton wreath. Milton.

A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.

o revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. [Obs.] And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser.

Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.

Destitute of a wreath.

Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.

See Inwreathe. Shelton.

To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. [R.] Lovelace.

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

To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.

To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.

A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. Loudon. And wreaths of agnus castus others bore. Dryden.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

Great as a man's arm. [Obs.] A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.

e, 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.).

A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.

A crown; wreath; garland. Spenser.

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. "An olive branch and laurel crown." Shak. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we…