2. hence, any roughness; unevenness.

Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky.

Dryden.

3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. wrenc a twisting, deceit.

Cf. Wrench, n.] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.

[Colloq.]

Wrin"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling

(?).]

1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or

wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport

that wrinkled Care derides." Milton.

Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed.

Pope.

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