wreathe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To coil, curl, or twist (something); to shape (something) into circles or coils.

   “[S]he ſtarts like one that ſpies an adder, / VVreath'd vp in fatall folds iuſt in his vvay, / The feare vvhereof doth make him ſhake, & ſhudder, […]”

2. fiil To adorn (someone or something) with a garland or wreath.

   “[W]ith Laurels vvreath your poſts, / And ſtrovv vvith Flovv'rs the Pavement; […]”

3. fiil Of flowers, leaves, etc.: to form the shape of a wreath around (something).

   “Death's Harbingers, lye latent in the Draught: / And in the Flovv'rs that vvreath the ſparkling Bovvl, / Fell Adders hiſs, and poys'nous Serpents roll.”

4. fiil Often followed by in and the thing encircling: to coil or spiral around, or encircle, (someone or something); (by extension) to cover or envelop (someone or something).

   “wreathed in mystery”

5. fiil Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind (oneself or something) around a person or thing; (by extension) to cause (oneself or something) to cover or encircle a person or thing.

   “He had a kercher wreathed aboute his heed: […]”

6. fiil Often followed by together: to entwine or twist (two or more people or things) together; to intertwine, to interweave.

   “[Y]ou haue learn'd (like Sir Protheus) to vvreath your Armes like a Male-content: […]”

7. fiil To form (a crown, garland, wreath, etc.) by entwining or twisting flowers, leaves, etc., together; also, to entwine or twist (flowers, leaves, etc.) together to form a crown, garland, wreath, etc.

   “On th' other ſide, Adam, ſoon as he heard / The fatal Treſpaſs don by Eve, amaz'd, / Aſtonied ſtood and Blank, vvhile horror chill / Ran through his veins, and all his joynts relax'd; / From his ſlack hand the Garland vvreath'd for Eve / Dovvn drop'd, and all the faded Roſes ſhed: […]”

8. fiil To strengthen (an earthen embankment) with hurdles of wattle.
9. fiil To form (something) by entwining or twisting two or more things together; also, to entwine or twist (something) with another thing.

   “Yf ther be twaine, one may defend the tother ouer throwne. / The single twyned cordes may no suche stresse indure / As cables brayded thre fould may, together wrethed swer [i.e., sure].”

10. fiil Followed by on: to place (a yoke, symbolizing a burden) on someone's neck.

    “[T]he French troops vvere to be employed as inſtruments for ſubduing the Scots, and vvreathing the yoke about their necks.”

11. fiil Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind around a person or thing.

    “[W]hen the Hoppe groweth high it muſt haue a pole, when the Iuie ſpreadeth, it cleaueth to the flint, when the Vine riſeth, it wreatheth about yͤ Elme, […]”

12. fiil Of mist, smoke, etc.: to move with a coiling, spiralling, or twisting motion.

    “I unsealed the vial mystical, / I outpoured the liquid thing, / And while the smoke came wreathing out, / I stood unshuddering.”

13. fiil Followed by with: to become intertwined with something.
14. fiil Of snow: to form drifts.
15. fiil To arrange (one's expression, face, etc.) into a smile; also (reflexive), of the lips, mouth, etc.: to arrange (itself or themselves) into a smile.

    “Contempt kept Bertram's anger down, / And wreathed to savage smile his frown.”

16. fiil To bend or turn (oneself), often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
17. fiil To artfully introduce (oneself) into a situation, a person's thoughts, etc.; to insinuate.
18. fiil To cause (the body, limbs, etc.) to twist violently; to contort, to writhe.

    “If an huge ſcaly Salmon chance to ſpy / The vvanton Errors of the ſvvimming Fly, / […] / Soon in ſmart Pains he feels the dire Miſtake, / Laſhes the VVaves, and beats the foamy Lake, / […] / And novv again, impatient of the VVound, / He rolls and vvreathes his ſhining Body round; […]”

19. fiil To rip or tear (something); to rend.

    “The bitings of lyons and ſuch like beaſtes are ſo dangerous, in regard of their ſtrength and fierceneſſe, for they doe not onely bite, but alſo vvreath and teare the vvounds vvhich they make vvith their teeth, or nailes: […]”

20. fiil To turn (something) violently around or aside; to wrench, to wring.

    “[T]o wreſt the will of man, or to wreath his hearte to our humours, it is not in the compaſſe of Arte, but in the power of the moſt higheſt.”