Word Meanings - UNWREATHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.

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• UNCOIL
  To unwind or open, as a coil of rope. Derham.
• 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.
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• UNTWINE
  To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.
• 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
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• WREATHEN
  Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.
• 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,
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• 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.
• UNWREATHE
  To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.
• ENWREATHE
  See SHELTON