[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. Causing or forming creases or wrinkles.
1601. [? Marston], Pasquil & Kath., II. 69. The wrinkling print of Time err’d when it seal’d my forehead vp with age.
1756. Mason, Odes, 16. To thee, whose … polish’d brow The wrinkling hand of Sorrow spares.
1820. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., I. i. 62. Ye icy Springs, stagnant with wrinkling frost.
1834. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, I. i. A wrinkling smile crossed the sexton’s brow.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., II. 49. We … took thy wrinkling cares For ruffling hopes, and called thee weak.
2. Undergoing marking with, characterized by, wrinkles or creases.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. 113. Glad Echo … Her wrinkling founts with soft vibration shakes.
1820. Keats, Hyperion, I. 100. This wrinkling brow, Naked and bare of its great diadem.
1839. Bailey, Festus, 27. The wrinkling stalk of Time.
1881. Cable, Mme. Delphine, iv. 13. Furniture … carved just enough to give the notion of wrinkling pleasantry.
† 3. Wriggling, writhing. Obs. rare–1.
1653. Lauson, Dennys’ Secr. Angling, 21. There be divers wayes to catch the wrinkling Eele.
