upwreathe

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upwreathe (third-person singular simple present upwreathes, present participle upwreathing, simple past and past participle upwreathed)

  1. Alternative form of upwreath
    • 1840, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, “St. Sacrament: A Legend of Lake George”, in Christian Ballads[1], New York: Wiley and Putnam, stanza 25, p. 17:
      I saw the cottage-smoke upwreathe, / Beneath the mountain shade, / And there I knew that old yeoman / His hermitage had made.