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Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrinkled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Wrinkling}.]
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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.
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Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.
--Pope.
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2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
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A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. --Milton.
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Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. --Bryant.
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{To wrinkle at}, to sneer at. [Obs.] --Marston.
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Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, n.
A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
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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. ????.]
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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.
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Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but
unspent youth. --Emerson.
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2. hence, any roughness; unevenness.
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Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. --Dryden.
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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.]
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Wrinkle \Wrin"kle\, v. i.
To shrink into furrows and ridges.
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