Of a person’s features: twisted, contorted; (also) wrinkled. Also of a person: characterized by such features. Now chiefly literary or archaic.

Scottish. That ‘girns’; ill-humoured, snarling.

Grimacing; (in extended use) mocking, derisive.

Of the features, limbs, etc.: twisted, contorted; (also) wrinkled.

That grimaces or assumes a demure, sanctimonious, or melancholy expression; querulous, complaining; †mumbling, toothless (obsolete).

Of the face or features: grotesquely distorted like a gargoyle; grinning or grimacing grotesquely.

covered with a frown; made to look frowning.

Of a person's face, features, or expression: twisted or contorted owing to contraction of the facial muscles, typically as a result of effort…

Displaying, expressing, or implying displeasure or discontent; peevish, cross. Wry; distorted.

Of a smile: (originally) formed by twisting or distorting the features; (in later use also) broad, beaming, intense (cf. note at wreathe, v. 1d).

Somewhat weak or drooping. Of the countenance: Haggard, melancholy.

Of the face, features: moving energetically or convulsively, esp. as the result of strong emotion.

Chiefly British. Of a person's face, features, or expression: twisted or contorted owing to contraction of the facial muscles, typically resulting…

full of frowns.

That grimaces.

Of the mouth, eyebrow, etc.: set into a particular position by quirking; bent; curved.