Definition of "wreathe"

You do not love Maria; Longaville / Did never sonnet for her sake compile, / Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart / His loving bosom to keep down his heart.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]

But how should I avoid to be her slave, / Whose subtle art invisibly can wreathe / My fetters of the very air I breathe?

1681, Andrew Marvell, The Fair Singer‎, lines 10–12

Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing / A flowery band to bind us to the earth, / Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth / Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, / Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways / Made for our searching: […]

1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, book I, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], lines 6-11

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egotist […], published 1917, page 16

The flowers crackled at Anne’s touch. “Enough to wreathe the winter’s dead,” she said with a happy little sigh and, taking a pink bud from the pile, twined it in the lace of her black cap.

1942, Emily Carr, “The Orange Lily”, in The Book of Small

I unsealed the vial mystical, / I outpoured the liquid thing, / And while the smoke came wreathing out, / I stood unshuddering.

1833, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A True Dream‎, New York: Macmillan, published 1914

from so heauie sight his head did wreath, / Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie