单词 | overtwine |
释义 | overtwinev. literary and poetic. Now rare. transitive. To twine over or round about; to wreathe. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil round (something) enlacec1374 whipc1500 wreathe1509 enwrap1578 circumvolute1599 twine1602 ingyre1610 wrap?1611 wire1645 serpenta1660 whirl1676 convolute1698 intertwine1717 entwine1796 overtwinea1817 enwind1849 warplea1870 a1817 F. Sayers Poet. Wks. (1830) 178 Well pleas'd I mark thy modest, straw-crown'd roof, The luscious woodbine that o'ertwines its brow. 1819 P. B. Shelley Let. 23 Mar. (1964) II. 85 Masses of the fallen ruin overtwined with the broad leaves of the creeping weeds. 1881 J. Todhunter Day-dream in Kent in Forest Songs 98 Dim rhododendron thickets, overtwined With English woodbine! 1905 H. James Lesson in Balzac 55 That pillared portico—paved with marble, I beg you to believe, and overtwined with charming flowers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1817 |
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