(n.)

A winkle.

(n.)

A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.

(n.)

hence, any roughness; unevenness.

(n.)

A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.

(v. t.)

To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.

(v. t.)

Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.

(v. i.)

To shrink into furrows and ridges.

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