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▪ I. wrinkled, a.|ˈrɪŋk(ə)ld|
[f. wrinkle n.1 + -ed2, or in early use representing the rare OE. ppl. form ᵹewrinclod winding (of a ditch), serrated: cf. wrinkle v.]
†1. Formed or disposed in convolutions, sinuosities, or windings; twisted, curled, coiled. Obs.
c1403Lydg. Temple Glas 84 Þe hous, That was for⁓wrynkked [v.r. so wrynkled] bi craft of Dedalus. c1407― Reson & Sens. 3607 The house of Dedalus..is so wrynkled to and froo That man not, how he shal goo. 1412–20― Chron. Troy ii. 2512 Þe serpent..Whiche wrinkled is, as ȝe may beholde, Vp-on þe ȝerde [= Mercury's wand]. 1513Douglas æneid v. x. 79 The hous..Hait Laborynthus, with mony went and streit, Had wrinkillit wallis. Ibid. vi. i. 60 Laborinthus..Full of wrinkillit vnreturnable dissait. 1578Lyte Dodoens 554 The fourth kind of red cole is called..in Englishe Wrinckled or ruffed Cole. 1587L. Mascall Bk. Cattell iii. (1596) 283 The wrinckled tailes of hogs.
2. Having, distinguished by, or formed into wrinkles, corrugations, or creases; contracted or puckered into small furrows and ridges; corrugated; also, pleated.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §34 Peeke wheate..oft tymes..is flyntered, that is to saye, small corne wrynkeled and dryed. 1530Palsgr. 785/2 Where have you ben, your kercher is wrinkled. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 31 b, The Apple tree is..of wrinckled barck. 1612Two Noble K. i. i. 122 Like wrinckled peobles in a glassie streame. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 160 The wild Irish used to weare 30 or 40 elles [of linen cloth] in a shirt, al gathered and wrinckled. 1711Addison Spect. No. 129 ⁋5 Every Ribbon was wrinkled, and every Part of her Garments in Curl. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Leaf, So as to give upon the whole [leaf] a wrinkled surface. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 461/2 The smooth and polished enamel..[of the tooth] presents a finely wrinkled appearance. 1861Holland Less. Life v. 70 Objects..distorted by reaching the eye through wrinkled window-glass. 1890Science-Gossip XXVI. 8/1 A large, wrinkled lump of chalk.
fig.1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. vii, The wrinckled fortunes of this poore spinster. 1643Caryl Expos. Job I. 1519 His wealth and honour were extreamly wrinkled.
b. poet. Formed by, due to, swelling or surging.
c1611Chapman Iliad vii. 49 Fresh horror..driven through the wrinkled waves By rising Zephyr. 1616J. Lane Contn. Sqr.'s T. 193 Now Titan, in th'oriental, wrinckled wave, had filld his lavor.
3. Of persons, the face, etc.: Marked with small folds, wrinkles, or furrows; creased, lined, furrowed.
a1529Skelton El. Rumminge 17 Her face..Woundersly wrynkled. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 270 To view with..wrinkled brow An age of pouerty. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle, etc. (1871) 123, I am..crabbed, wringkled, olde. 1651Barksdale Nympha Lib. ii. ix. 32 With wrinckled face, thou cry'st out, Vanitie! a1683Oldham Rem. (1684) 114 An old wrinkled Baboon. 1718Pope Iliad xv. 112 On her wrinkled front..Sat steadfast care. 1786Beckford's Vathek (1883) 93 A wrinkled old eunuch. 1808Scott Marm. vi. xi, His large and wrinkled hand. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Beauty, Character gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin.
transf.1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. iii. 5 A purpose More graue, and wrinkled, then the aimes..Of burning youth. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam ii. xxxiii, Old age, with its gray hair, And wrinkled legends of unworthy things. 1817Wordsw. Pass of Kirkstone 17 Wrinkled Egyptian monument; Green moss-grown tower.
b. fig. and in fig. context.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. i. 9 Grim-visag'd Warre, hath smooth'd his wrinkled Front. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. i. iii. D j, Or lies he hid Within the wrinckled bosome of the world? 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 71 Casting off the old and wrincl'd skin of corruption to..wax young again. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. Pref. 2 The frowns of perverse and wrinckled fortune. 1670Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 197 The wrinkled face of antiquity. 1821Shelley Hellas 139 The hoary mountains and the wrinkled ocean Seem younger still than he. 1871E. F. Burr Ad Fidem xvi. 351 The fresh present, and wrinkled antiquity.
c. Marked or characterized by wrinkles.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 154, I am entred into my wrinkled and withered age. 1581A. Hall Iliad iv. 69 After our vnbrideled youth coms sage and wrinckled yeares. 1607A. Brewer Lingua iv. ii, These two my lord Comedus and Tragedus,..This grave.., That light and quick, with wrinkled laughter painted. 1634Milton Comus 871 Listen and appear to us.., By hoary Nereus wrincled look. 1753Adventurer No. 74, The lectures of wrinkled wisdom. 1792Burns ‘In Simmer when’ i, A dame in wrinkled eild.
4. Bot., Anat., Zool. Marked by rugæ or wrinkles; rugose, corrugated.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1574) 117 Those Nauews be the better, which be long and in a manner wrinckled. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. 167 The heades and the neckes of [peahens]..couered with a wrinckled skinne. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 472 The skinne vpon the vpper part of this beast, is all wrinckled. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 267 Their [sc. horses'] wrinkled and round nostrills. 1727Bailey, Rugosus,..(in Botan. Writers,) wrinkled. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 49 Leaves on leaf-stalks,..wrinkled and shining. 1854Murchison Siluria ix. 233 Wrinkled tubes of these [annelids]. 1855Kingsley Glaucus 83 The Spoonworm..with a strange scalloped and wrinkled proboscis. 1873Dawson Earth & Man iv. 65 The rugose or wrinkled corals.
b. In specific names (see quots.).
1681Grew Musæum i. 127 The Wrinkled-Snail. Cochlea rugosa. 1770Pennant Brit. Zool. (1777) IV. 95 Wrinkled V[enus] with thick shells, marked with rugose concentric striæ. 1800Shaw Gen. Zool. I. 33 Wrinkled Baboon,..with..large blood-red wrinkled callosities behind. 1801Pennant Tour 114 Salix reticulata, or Wrinkled Willow. 1802Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 28 Wrinkled Tortoise, Testudo rugosa... Tortoise with black wrinkled shell. c1880Cassell's Nat. Hist. III. 353 A curious envelope..thrown by a Wrinkled Hornbill (Anorrhinus corrugatus).
5. Comb., as wrinkled-old, wrinkled-leaved, wrinkled-visaged.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 133 Were I hard-favour'd, foul, or wrinkled-old. 1822Hortus Anglicus II. 195 G[eranium] Lividum. Wrinkled-leaved Crane's Bill. 1838Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1868) I. 171 A grey,..wrinkled-visaged figure.
Hence ˈwrinkledness.
1552Huloet, Wrincklenesse [sic], or ruggednes of the skynne, scabredo. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Rugosité. 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Tortness,..writhenness, wrinkledness. 1889E. W. Benson in Life (1899) II. 262 The Shah has a..nearness and wrinkledness of eyes.
▪ II. ˈwrinkled, ppl. a.
[f. wrinkle v.]
Subjected to wrinkling. In quot. with up.
1859Meredith R. Feverel xxiii, Putting the mouth of the pipe to his wrinkled-up temples. |