Word Meanings - WREATHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.

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• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• SPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. Spiral gear, or Spiral wheel , a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals. -- Spiral gearing,
• SPIRALITY
  The quality or states of being spiral.
• CURLY
  Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
• 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,
• CURLEW
  A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. Note: The common European curlew is N. arquatus. The long-billed (N. longirostris), the Hudsonian , and the Eskimo curlew (N. borealis, are American species. The
• CURL
  To shape into a curve. (more info) 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne. 2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many
• SPIRALOZOOID
  One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.
• 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.
• SPIRALLY
  In a spiral form, manner, or direction.
• COCHLEARY
  See COCHLEATE
• 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
• CURLINESS
  State of being curly.
• CURLER
  1. One who, or that which, curls. 2. A player at the game called curling. Burns.
• MUSCULOSPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• 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.
• CONCHO-SPIRAL
  A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.
• SUSPIRAL
  1. A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct. 2. A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
• INWREATHE
  Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.