Wrinkle

Wrinkle - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

WRINKLE, n. [G.]

1. A small ridge or prominence, or a furrow, formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; corrugation; a crease; as wrinkles in the face or skin.

2. A fold or rumple in cloth.

3. Roughness; unevenness.

Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.

WRINKLE, v.t.

1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to corrugate; as, to wrinkle the skin; to wrinkle the brow.

Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayd.

2. To make rough or uneven.

A keen north wind, blowing dry, wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayd.

WRINKLE, v.i. To shrink into furrows and ridges.

rin'-k'-l (qamaT, "to lay hold on"; rhutis, "a wrinkle"): In Job 16:8, the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes, "Thou hast laid fast hold on me" (margin "shrivelled me up") for the King James Version "Thou hast filled me with wrinkles." In Eph 5:27, Paul's figurative reference to the church as a bride, "not having spot or wrinkle," is indicative of the perennial youth and attractiveness of the church.