Websters Dictionary 1828
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Wrinkle
WRINKLE, noun [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, verb transitive
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, verb intransitive To shrink into furrows and ridges.
First Occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Ephesians 5:27