Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wrinkle"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. i.
To shrink into furrows and ridges.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n.
A winkle. [Local, U. S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n. [OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD.
wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka,
OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. ????.]
1. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the
shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a
corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the
skin; a wrinkle in cloth. ``The wrinkles in my brows.''
--Shak.

Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but
unspent youth. --Emerson.

2. hence, any roughness; unevenness.

Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden.

3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a
twisting, deceit. Cf. {Wrench}, n.] A notion or fancy; a
whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrinkled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Wrinkling}.]
1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a
wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin
or the brow. ``Sport that wrinkled Care derides.''
--Milton.

Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
--Pope.

2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the
face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton.

Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant.

{To wrinkle at}, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

wrinkle
n : a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his
face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
[syn: {furrow}, {crease}, {crinkle}, {seam}, {line}]
v 1: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse
ones's lips" [syn: {purse}]
2: make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress
got wrinkled" [syn: {ruckle}, {crease}, {crinkle}, {scrunch},
{scrunch up}, {crisp}]
3: make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow" [syn: {furrow},
{crease}]
4: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't
wrinkle" [syn: {rumple}, {crumple}, {crease}, {crinkle}]


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