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nking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth. "The wrinkles in my brows." Shak. Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth. Emerson.

To reduce from a wrinkled state; to smooth.

on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

t 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. Drayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.

The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes. Tennyson.