Wreath: Definition and part of speech

Wreath

  1. n. An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.
  2. n. Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers.
  3. n. A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.