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Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." Lowell.

Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.

An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

The process of engraving dies.

Trim; neat. [Scot.] Burns. -- Dink"ly, adv.

To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] Tennyson.

A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.

Same as Drawbar (b).

r purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble.…

Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.

State of being drinkable.

One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth (Zoöl.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria).

The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

Destitute of drink. Chaucer.

To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.

A wink; a token. Shak.

An eyelash. [A child's word.]

To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.

To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [Obs.] "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.

sts and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.