| 释义 |
writhled, a.|ˈrɪð(ə)ld|
[app. f. the stem of writhe v.1 (see -le 3); but perh. an alteration of rivelled a.]
1. Of persons, the skin, etc.: Wrinkled; shrivelled, withered. Now Obs. exc. arch.
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Vultus, To make the face writheled and wrinkled. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. iii. 23 This weake and writhled shrimpe. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. 187 Cold, writhled Eld. 1649Lovelace Poems (1904) 100 Cynthia spotted, she impure; Her body writheld. 1693J. H. tr. Juv. Sat. x. 11 A writhled and discouler'd skin. 1865Swinburne Poems & Ball., St. Dorothy 445 This makes him sad and writhled in his face.
Comb.a1656R. Cox Actæon & Diana 4 A writhled fac'd companion.
†2. Rough; shaggy. Obs. rare—1.
c1600Timon v. iv. (1842) 86 An vnshorne heade, a writhled beard, beetle browed. |