Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wrinkling"
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.
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