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▪ I. ˈwimpling, vbl. n.
In 3 wimlunge.
[f. wimple v. + -ing1.]
†1. The wearing of a wimple. Obs.
c1240Ancr. R. 420 (MS. C) Ancren, sume sungið in hare wimlunge na lesse þene lefdi.
2. The winding or meandering of a stream; also, rippling.
1729Ramsay 2nd Answ. Somerville 30 Its wimplings [Wks. 1851 III. 94 whimplings] led by Nature's hand. 1863Le Fanu House by Churchy. lxxix, Those..pleasant dimples, like the wimpling of a well. 1893Jos. Thomson in Biogr. (1896) 288 The wimpling of the burns over stony beds.
▪ II. ˈwimpling, ppl. a.
[f. wimple v. + -ing2.]
1. Veiling, concealing.
1747Ridley Psyche xi, That wimpling Slough shall fall like Filth away. 1817Scott Harold ii. ii, Where wimpling tissue from the gaze The form half hides.
2. Winding, meandering (esp. of streams); also, rippling. Also transf. in poet. use.
1721Ramsay Richy & Sandy 28 Wimpling Waters which in Latium flow. 1785Burns Scotch Drink ii, Guid auld Scotch Drink! Whether thro' wimplin' worms thou jink, Or, richly brown, ream owre the brink. 1827W. G. S. Excurs. Village Curate 50 The old brook with its whimpling current. 1847Longfellow Ev. ii. ii. 18 Along the wimpling waves of their margin,..flocks of pelicans waded. 1861Smiles Engineers II. viii. i. 294 The solitude..is only broken by the wimpling sound of the burns. 1877G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 69 How he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy. 1894Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet i, The wimpling lane. |