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.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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