[f. WRINKLE sb.1 + -ED2, or in early use representing the rare OE. ppl. form ʓewrinclod winding (of a ditch), serrated: cf. WRINKLE v.]
† 1. Formed or disposed in convolutions, sinuosities or windings; twisted, curled, coiled. Obs.
c. 1403. Lydg., Temple Glas, 84. Þe hous, That was forwrynkked [v.r. so wrynkled] bi craft of Dedalus. Ibid. (c. 1407), Reson & Sens., 3607. The house of Dedalus … is so wrynkled to and froo That man not, how he shal goo. Ibid. (1412–20), Chron. Troy, III. 2512. Þe serpent … Whiche wrinkled is, as ȝe may beholde, Vp-on þe ȝerde [= Mercury’s wand].
1513. Douglas, Æneid, V. x. 79. The hous … Hait Laborynthus, with mony went and streit, Had wrinkillit wallis. Ibid., VI. i. 60. Laborinthus … Full of wrinkillit vnreturnable dissait.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 554. The fourth kind of red cole is called … in Englishe Wrinckled or ruffed Cole.
1587. Mascall, Bk. Cattell, III. (1596), 283. The wrinckled tailes of hogs.
2. Having, distinguished by, or formed into wrinkles, corrugations or creases; contracted or puckered into small furrows and ridges; corrugated; also, pleated.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 34. Peeke wheate … oft tymes … is flyntered, that is to saye, small corne wrynkeled and dryed.
1530. Palsgr., 785/2. Where have you ben, your kercher is wrinkled.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 31 b. The Apple tree is … of wrinckled barck.
1612. Two Noble K., I. i. 122. Like wrinckled peobles in a glassie streame.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. 160. The wild Irish used to weare 30 or 40 elles [of linen cloth] in a shirt, al gathered and wrinckled.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 129, ¶ 5. Every Ribbon was wrinkled, and every Part of her Garments in Curl.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl. s.v. Leaf, So as to give upon the whole [leaf] a wrinkled surface.
1841. Penny Cycl., XX. 461/2. The smooth and polished enamel … [of the tooth] presents a finely wrinkled appearance.
1861. Holland, Less. Life, v. 70. Objects … distorted by reaching the eye through wrinkled window-glass.
1890. T. D. Wright, in Science-Gossip, XXVI. 8/1. A hen’s egg which much more resembled a large, wrinkled lump of chalk than the production of Gallus domesticus.
fig. 1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., V. vii. The wrinckled fortunes of this poore spinster.
1643. Caryl, Expos. Job, I. 1519. His wealth and honour were extreamly wrinkled.
b. poet. Formed by, due to, swelling or surging.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, VII. 49. Fresh horror … driven through the wrinkled waves By rising Zephyr.
1616. J. Lane, Contn. Sqr.’s T., 193. Now Titan, in th’oriental, wrinckled wave, had filld his lavor.
3. Of persons, the face, etc.: Marked with small folds, wrinkles or furrows; creased, lined, furrowed.
a. 1529. Skelton, El. Rumminge, 17. Her face … Woundersly wrynkled.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., IV. i. 270. To view with … wrinkled brow An age of pouerty.
1616. R. C., Times’ Whistle, etc. (1871), 123. I am … crabbed, wringkled, olde.
1651. Barksdale, Nympha Lib., II. ix. 32. With wrinckled face, thou cry’st out, Vanitie!
c. 1683. Oldham, Rem. (1684), 114. An old wrinkled Baboon.
1718. Pope, Iliad, XV. 112. On her wrinkled front … Sat steadfast care.
1786. Beckford’s Vathek (1883), 93. A wrinkled old eunuch.
1808. Scott, Marm., VI. xi. His large and wrinkled hand.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life, Beauty, ¶ 28. Character gives splendor to youth and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
transf. 1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., I. iii. 5. A purpose More graue, and wrinkled, then the aimes … Of burning youth.
1817. Shelley, Rev. Islam, II. xxxiii. Old age, with its gray hair, And wrinkled legends of unworthy things.
1817. Wordsw., Pass of Kirkstone, 17. Wrinkled Egyptian monument; Green moss-grown tower.
b. fig. and in fig. context.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. i. 9. Grim-visag’d Warre, hath smooth’d his wrinkled Front.
1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., I. iii. D j. Or lies he hid Within the wrinckled bosome of the world?
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 71. Casting off the old and wrincl’d skin of corruption to … wax young again.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., Pref. 2. The frowns of perverse and wrinckled fortune.
1670. Clarendon, Ess., Tracts (1727), 197. The wrinkled face of antiquity.
1821. Shelley, Hellas, 139. The hoary mountains and the wrinkled ocean Seem younger still than he.
1871. E. F. Burr, Ad Fidem, xvi. 351. The fresh present, and wrinkled antiquity.
c. Marked or characterized by wrinkles.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 154. I am entred into my wrinkled and withered age.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, IV. 69. After our vnbrideled youth coms sage and wrinckled yeares.
1607. A. Brewer, Lingua, IV. ii. These two my lord Comedus and Tragedus,… This grave…, That light and quick, with wrinkled laughter painted.
1634. Milton, Comus, 871. Listen and appear to us…, By hoary Nereus wrincled look.
1753. Adventurer, No. 74. The lectures of wrinkled wisdom.
1792. Burns, ‘In Simmer when,’ i. A dame in wrinkled eild.
4. Bot., Anat., Zool. Marked by rugæ or wrinkles; rugose, corrugated.
1563. Hyll, Art Garden. (1574), 117. Those Nauews be the better, which be long and in a manner wrinckled.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., IV. 167. The heades and the neckes of [peahens] … couered with a wrinckled skinne.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 472. The skinne vpon the vpper part of this beast, is all wrinckled.
1638. Junius, Paint. Ancients, 267. Their [sc. horses’] wrinkled and round nostrills.
1727. Bailey, Rugosus,… (in Botan. Writers,) wrinkled.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), II. 49. Leaves on leaf-stalks,… wrinkled and shining.
1854. Murchison, Siluria, ix. 233. Wrinkled tubes of these [annelids].
1855. Kingsley, Glaucus, 83. The Spoonworm … with a strange scalloped and wrinkled proboscis.
1873. Dawson, Earth & Man, iv. 65. The rugose or wrinkled corals.
b. In specific names (see quots.).
1681. Grew, Musæum, I. 127. The Wrinkled-Snail. Cochlea rugosa.
1770. Pennant, Brit. Zool. (1777), IV. 95. Wrinkled V[enus] with thick shells, marked with rugose concentric striæ.
1800. Shaw, Gen. Zool., I. 33. Wrinkled Baboon,… with … large blood-red wrinkled callosities behind.
1801. Pennant, Tour, 114. Salix reticulata, or Wrinkled Willow.
1802. Shaw, Gen. Zool., III. 28. Wrinkled Tortoise, Testudo rugosa.… Tortoise with black wrinkled shell.
c. 1880. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., III. 353. A curious envelope … thrown by a Wrinkled Hornbill (Anorrhinus corrugatus).
5. Comb., as wrinkled-old, -leaved, -visaged.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 133. Were I hard-favour’d, foul, or wrinkled-old.
1822. Hortus Anglicus, II. 195. G[eranium] Lividum. Wrinkled-leaved Crane’s Bill.
1838. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1868), I. 171. A grey,… wrinkled-visaged figure.
Hence Wrinkledness.
1552. Huloet, Wrincklenesse [sic], or ruggednes of the skynne, scabredo.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Rugosité.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Tortness,… writhenness, wrinkledness.
1889. E. W. Benson, in Life (1899), II. 262. The Shah has a … nearness and wrinkledness of eyes.
