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A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.] Your bonnie brow was brent. Burns.

To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.

ite fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak.

A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

to mark as if by cutting. My good blade carved the casques of men. Tennyson. A million wrinkles carved his skin. Tennyson.

A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.

To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting. Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Wrinkled; puckered. Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. Gay.

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. Thou didst contract and purse thy brow. Shak.

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.

Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson.

Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

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

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

To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.

To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. [Obs.] Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy. Shak.

Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.