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Word Meanings - WREATHEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to WREATHEN)

  • WREATHLESS
    Destitute of a wreath.
  • WREATHE
    1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
  • TWISTING
    a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
  • WREATH-SHELL
    A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
  • TWISTER
    A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
  • TWIST
    twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
  • WREATHEN
    Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.
  • TWISTED
    Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
  • TWISTE
    imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
  • WREATHY
    Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.
  • WREATH
    An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest . It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms. (more info) 1. Something twisted,
  • UNTWIST
    1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
  • INTERTWIST
    To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
  • INTERWREATHE
    To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
  • INWREATHE
    Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
  • UPWREATH
    To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.
  • INTERTWISTINGLY
    By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
  • UNWREATHE
    To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.
  • ENWREATHE
    See SHELTON
  • WATER TU TWIST
    Yarn made by the throstle, or water frame.

 

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