wrinkle

n. A winkle. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. wrinkil, AS. wrincle; akin to OD. wrinckel, and prob. to Dan. rynke, Sw. rynka, Icel. hrukka, OHG. runza, G. runzel, L. ruga. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. hence, any roughness; unevenness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Wrinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. [ 1913 Webster ]

A keen north wind that, blowing dry,
Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]