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noun

Wrinkle n. A winkle. (Local, U. S.)

Wrinkle n.

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." "Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth."

Hence, any roughness; unevenness. "Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky."

A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. (Colloq.)

verb

Wrinkle v. t. (past & past part. wrinkled; pres. part. wrinkling)

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." "Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed."

Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. "A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed." "Then danced we on the wrinkled sand."

To wrinkle at, to sneer at. (Obs.)

Wrinkle v. i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.

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"Wrinkle" Quotes from Famous Books

... use of my fingers, Sultana!" replied the giant, permitting a grim smile to wrinkle his face ...

— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle

... Arthur Gride, in whose face there was not a wrinkle, in whose dress there was not one spare fold or plait, but expressed the most covetous and griping penury, and sufficiently indicated his belonging to that class of which Ralph Nickleby was a member. Such was old Arthur Gride, as he sat in a low ...

— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens

... sixty, of rather more than average height, smooth shaven, bewigged, bespectacled, and scrupulously dressed according to the fashion of the day. Time in its passing has dealt gently with him. There is no stoop to his shoulders, no tremor in the fingers that play restlessly on the window-pane. Not a wrinkle mars the placid features. ...

— Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters • H. Addington Bruce

... difficulty in following the colloquy. But what he heard did not please him, and, as he listened, the wrinkle between his eyebrows deepened ...

— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof

... pillows, until they were round and smooth, and absently adjusted the bed, until there was not a wrinkle in the snow-white counterpane, after which, like a good private in domestic service, she shouldered the warming pan with its long handle, murmured "good-night" and departed, not to dream of milking, churning or cheese-making, ...

— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham

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