Upwreath

Quick meaning: Upwreath is a verb meaning (intransitive) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.

Meaning

(intransitive) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To twist or entwine (something) upward.
2. (transitive) To send (something) upward in curls.

Example Sentences

By thy upwreathed locks that scent the wind, O! hear my prayer, and aid; for Myrrha is unkind!

And your fair vestals, watchful, swing Sweet incense for their welcoming, The while our thuribles shall be Upwreathing odorous thoughts to thee;

And around it columns of smoke, upwreathing, Rose from the boiling, bubbling, seething Caldron, that glowed, And overflowed With the black tar, heated for the sheathing.

Ambrosial banquet for Olympus fit, Whose savours with the sweetest incense breathed Of youth, and hope, and energy, and wit, And thoughts of love that with these fumes upwreathed.

Word Forms

• upwreaths
• upwreathing
• upwreathed
• upwreathe

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include upwreathe, upwhirl, uptwirl, upswell, purl, upwind.

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