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Wrinkling

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.
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