v. Also 7 engyrland, ingarland. [f. EN- pref.1 + GARLAND; cf. Fr. enguirlander.]
1. trans. To put a garland upon; to wreathe with. Also with flowers, etc., as subj. Also fig.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 60. Laurels … to engarland our Poets heads.
1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. i. Powers … Whose milde aspect engyrland Poesie.
a. 1631. Drayton, Leg. Piers Gaveston (1748), 205. With funeral wreaths ingarlanding his brows.
1830. Tennyson, Arab. Nts., xiv. [A cloth of gold] Engarlanded and diaper’d With inwrought flowers.
1853. F. W. Newman, trans. Odes Horace, 110. To tempt the little gods, whom myrtle Frail and rosemary engarlands.
2. To surround, as with a garland.
1598. E. Gilpin, Skial., v. You rotten-throated slaves Engarlanded with coney-catching Knaves.
1814. Cary, Dante (Chandos), 147. On that part of the cornice, where no rim Engarlands its steep fall, did Virgil come.
1879. Chr. Rossetti, Seek & F., 91. Snowy heights form a water-shed for the low-lying fertility which engarlands their base.
Hence Engarlanded ppl. a.
1858. W. Johnson, Ionica, 82. A sister’s engarlanded brows.
