To contract or contort (the features, etc.); to screw, distort, turn awry.

intransitive. To make a wry face, distort the countenance; to grin, grimace. Obsolete.

transitive. To screw up or distort (the face or features).

transitive. To draw in or contract (a part of the body); to contort (the face, etc.). Also in extended use. Also with in. Obsolete.

transitive. To distort or contort (the face or features); to twist (the face or body) into a particular expression or posture. Also: to close…

transitive. To screw up (the face or nose); to clench (the hands) tightly. Formerly also: †to hunch up the back.

transitive. To express by grinning.

transitive. To contract the facial muscles around (the mouth, eyes, or nose), typically as an expression of emotion; to contort (the face or…

transitive. To form (the face or mouth) into an expression of affected preciseness or demureness; to close (the lips) primly.

quasi-transitive. To enforce, express, produce, etc. by a frown.

To twist or force (the features) into or to a smile, etc.

transitive. To arrange or compose (one's expression, features, etc.) into a smile. Also reflexive: (of the mouth, lips, etc.) to be arranged in this…

transitive. To screw or distort (the face).