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To guess. [Prov. Eng.] "She inkled what it was." R. D. Blackmore.

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.

One who, or that which, besprinkles.

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalites or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. The houscrinkled to and fro. Chaucer. Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs.…

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

Destitute of drink. Chaucer.

Same as 3d Kink.

Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.

h holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs. [Written also pilliewinkles.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.

One who sprinkles.

The wheater. [Prov. Eng.]

The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound. And his ears tinkled, and the color fled. Dryden.

A tinker. [Prov. Eng.]

To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper. [Obs.] Wright.

en, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. These stars not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

To reduce from a wrinkled state; to smooth.

Any periwinkle. Holland.