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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