Wrinkle

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Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A winkle.

2. (n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.

3. (n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness.

4. (n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.

5. (v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.

6. (v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

7. (v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges.


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