laurel

An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.

Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise.

A crown of laurel.

Honor, distinction, fame.

to win laurels

to crown with laurels

Any plant of the family Lauraceae.

Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.

To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.

Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.

To enwreathe.

It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.

To award top honours to.

In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.

Not in any vision of that order did he figure for most of the admirers who laurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go on laurelling him still.

Formerly, a participant aged sixteen or seventeen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.