wreathe

Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.

[S]he ſtarts like one that ſpies an adder, / VVreath'd vp in fatall folds iuſt in his vvay, / The feare vvhereof doth make him ſhake, & ſhudder, […]

[T]he Beards of vvilde Oates, and thoſe of divers other vvilde Plants; […] almoſt continually vvreath and unvvreath themſelves according to, even, the light variations of the temperature of the ambient Air.

Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.

[W]ith Laurels vvreath your poſts, / And ſtrovv vvith Flovv'rs the Pavement; […]

Eſcap'd the flaſhing of the noontide hours / VVith one freſh garland of Pierian flovvers / (Ere from thy zephyr-haunted brink I turn) / My languid hand ſhall vvreath thy moſſy urn.

Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.

Death's Harbingers, lye latent in the Draught: / And in the Flovv'rs that vvreath the ſparkling Bovvl, / Fell Adders hiſs, and poys'nous Serpents roll.

O'er Diſappointment's vvintry deſart fling / Each flovver, that vvreath'd the devvy locks of Spring, / VVhen bluſhing, like a bride, from Hope's trim bovver / She leapt, avvaken'd by the pattering ſhovver.

Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.

wreathed in mystery

At the funeral, a circle of comrades wreathed the grave of the honoured deceased.

Senses relating to intertwining or twisting.

He had a kercher wreathed aboute his heed: […]

[A]bout his necke / A greene and guilded ſnake had vvreath'd it ſelfe, […]