Definition of wreath

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Wreath (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of 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..

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Maypole :: Maypole (n.) A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had..
Strophanthus :: Strop (n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it..
Wreathe :: Wreathe (n.) To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold.
Volution :: Volution (n.) A spiral turn or wreath.
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball..
Coronal :: Coronal (n.) A crown; wreath; garland.
Laureate :: Laureate (v. i.) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities..
Green :: Green (n.) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..
Wreathen :: Wreathen (a.) Twisted; made into a wreath.
Anthobranchia :: Anthobranchia (n. pl.) 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..
Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
Torse :: Torse (n.) A wreath.
Pygobranchia :: Pygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiae in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris..
Upwreath :: Upwreath (v. i.) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke..
Intort :: Intort (v. t.) To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring.
Wreath :: Wreath (n.) Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers..
Enwreathe :: Enwreathe (v. t.) See Inwreathe.
Orle :: Orle (n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest..
Tortive :: Tortive (a.) Twisted; wreathed.
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