upwreathing

Verb

upwreath (third-person singular simple present upwreaths, present participle upwreathing, simple past and past participle upwreathed)

1. (intransitive) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.
   • In unctuous cones of kindling coal,
     Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe’s trim bole,
     His [the poet’s] gifted ken can see
     Phantoms of sublimity.1822, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Apologia pro Vita Sua” in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912, p. 345
2. (transitive) To twist or entwine (something) upward.
   • […] coiled around his crest, a dragon long
     Upwreathed its golden spires the wavy plumes among.1830, Reginald Heber, “Morte d'Arthur: A Fragment,” Canto 2, stanza 14, in The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, London: Frederick Warne, no date, p. 210
3. (transitive) To send (something) upward in curls.
   • And your fair vestals, watchful, swing
     Sweet incense for their welcoming,
     The while our thuribles shall be
     Upwreathing odorous thoughts to thee;1911, C. G. Blanden, “Redwood”, in The Upper Trail, Chicago: The Alderbrink Press, page 200