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Wrin"kle (?), n. A winkle. [Local, U. S.]
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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. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;.]
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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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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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Wrin"kle, v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.
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