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Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.

t the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.

To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.

Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.

To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit. Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow. Shak.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To wrinkle. "With a forehead ridged." Cowper.

A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.

To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers. [Obs.] Pope. "Riveled parchments." Walpole.

To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet. Smart.

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugæ of the stomach.

Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled. Dana.

Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc. "Sleek o'er your rugged looks." Shak.

Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.

Wrinkled; rugose.

To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scoth paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. Burke.

Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.

To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.