Word Meanings - WREATHEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.
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- 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.