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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.

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 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.

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

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.]

so, a chain. And thou shalt make hooks of gold, and two chains of fine gold; linkwork and wreathed. Udall.

A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.

Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine. Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake. Dryden.

Wreathed; twisted. [R.]

Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.

Twisted; wreathed. Shak.

Wreathed; twisted; winding. Loudon

Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay.