upwreath

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Etymology

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From up- +‎ wreath.

Verb

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upwreath (third-person singular simple present upwreaths, present participle upwreathing, simple past and past participle upwreathed)

  1. (intransitive) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.
    • 1822, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Apologia pro Vita Sua” in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912, p. 345,[1]
      In unctuous cones of kindling coal,
      Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe’s trim bole,
      His [the poet’s] gifted ken can see
      Phantoms of sublimity.
    • 1850, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Building of the Ship”, in The Seaside and the Fireside[2], Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 18:
      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.
    • 1911, Arthur Lynch, Prince Azreel: A Poem with Prose Notes[3], London: Stephen Swift, page 41:
      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.
    • 1979, Julian Moynahan, chapter 3, in Where the Land and Water Meet[4], New York: William Morrow, page 54:
      And a little off to the left, at about a mile’s distance, lay a large rubbish and garbage dump, from which coils of black and yellow smoke upwreathed into the peaceful Sunday morning air.
  2. (transitive) To twist or entwine (something) upward.
    • 1830, Reginald Heber, “Morte d'Arthur: A Fragment,” Canto 2, stanza 14, in The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, London: Frederick Warne, no date, p. 210,[5]
      [] coiled around his crest, a dragon long
      Upwreathed its golden spires the wavy plumes among.
    • 1861, Joseph Noel Paton, “Hymn to Aphrodite”, in Poems by a Painter[6], Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 133:
      By thy upwreathed locks that scent the wind,
      O! hear my prayer, and aid; for Myrrha is unkind!
  3. (transitive) To send (something) upward in curls.
    • 1911, C. G. Blanden, “Redwood”, in The Upper Trail[7], Chicago: The Alderbrink Press, page 200:
      And your fair vestals, watchful, swing
      Sweet incense for their welcoming,
      The while our thuribles shall be
      Upwreathing odorous thoughts to thee;