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Wrinkle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small ridge or prominence, or a furrow, formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; corrugation; a crease; as wrinkles in the face or skin.

2. A fold or rumple in cloth.

3. Roughness; unevenness.

4. Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.

Wrinkle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To shrink into furrows and ridges.

Wrinkle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to corrugate; as, to wrinkle the skin; to wrinkle the brow.

2. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayd.

3. To make rough or uneven.

4. A keen north wind, blowing dry, wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayd.

Wrinkle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A winkle.

2. 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.

3. hence, any roughness; unevenness.

4. A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.

Wrinkle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To shrink into furrows and ridges.

Wrinkle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.

2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

Wrinkled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Contracted into ridges and furrows.

Wrinkled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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