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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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15 words match “RUMPLE”

RUMPLE v. 2 definitions
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.
RUMPLED a.
Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.
RUMPLESS a.
Destitute of a rump.
CRUMPLE v. 2 definitions
To draw or press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison.
UNRUMPLE v.
To free from rumples; to spread or lay even,
CORRUGATE a.
Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
LEAF n.
, butterflies of the genus Kallima, found in Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Leaf crumpler (Zoöl.), a small moth (Phycis indigenella), the larva of which feeds upon leaves of the apple tree, and forms its nest by crumpling and fastening leaves together in clusters. -- Leaf cutter (Zoöl.) , any one of various sp…
MOUSLE v.
To sport with roughly; to rumple. [Written also mouzle.] [Obs.] Wycherley.
MUSS v.
To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple. [Colloq. U.S.]
MUSSY a.
Disarranged; rumpled. [Colloq. U.S.]
RABBLE v.
To rumple; to crumple. [Scot.]
RIMPLE n. 2 definitions
A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.
RUMPLY a.
Rumpled. Carlyle.
TUMBLE v.
To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
WISP v.
To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.