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drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugate…

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator. [Obs.]

To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." Chaucer.

A druggist. [Obs.] Burton.

A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

A druggist. [Obs.] Boule.

Freed from wrinkles; smooth.

or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; æruginous.

Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.

Ferruginous. [R.]

Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron. Boyle.

A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.

wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. Milton.

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Burke.

Thriftily; prudently.

, n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.

Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. Dr. H. More.