[f. the stem of OE. ʓewrinclod (see WRINKLED a.) + -ING1.]

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  † 1.  A twisting or coiling; a sinuosity. Obs.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden, I. 9. As laborintus … haþ many … wyndynges and wrynkelynges, þat wil nouȝt be vnwarled.

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1535.  Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XVII. clxxiii. A good smellynge smoke,… full meuable, and tornynge, and crokyd with many bendynges and wrynklynges.

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  2.  The action of creasing, puckering or contracting into wrinkles; the fact of becoming corrugated or rivelled.

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1528.  Paynell, Salerne’s Regim., C iij. Retraction and wrynkelynge together of the veynes.

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1594.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 346. A certaine contraction and wrinckling … of the orifice.

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1617.  Moryson, Itin., III. 173. The Curtizans make all the forepart of their gownes in like manner open, to avoid wrinckling.

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1693.  trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), 111/2. The wrinkling of the lower part of the Vagina.

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1698.  Phil. Trans., XX. 174. If the Fly had been Dead for some while … I could have observed none of this Wrinkling.

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1859.  Habits of Gd. Society, iii. 149. A peculiar wrinkling [of the trousers] from the foot to the knee.

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1885.  Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888), II. 268. [The] degree of wrinkling of the back of the mesothorax.

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1888.  Cornh. Mag., Jan., 40. Wrinklings of the crust … gave rise at first to baby mountain ranges.

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  transf.  1875.  Browning, Aristoph. Apol., 120. The olive-leaves curl, violets crisp and close Like a nymph’s wrinkling at the bath’s first splash.

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  attrib.  1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., 2822. Wrinkling-machine,… one to wrinkle transversely the upper leathers of boots and shoes.

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  3.  concr. A series or collection of wrinkles; a puckered surface, formation, etc.

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1495.  Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., V. lxiii. (W. de W.), l viij. Ye fatnes … stretchyth oute the wrynkelynge of the skynne.

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1579.  Langham, Gard. Health, 379. The shriueled wrincklings yt appeare on womens bellies after their deliuerance.

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1628.  Folkingham, Panala Med., 66. It clenses the Ventricle from … Crudities sticking to its rugosities and wrinklings.

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1857.  P. P. Carpenter, Cat. Mazatlan Shells, 225. The first whirl … is characterized by extremely minute wrinkling over the whole surface, only discernible … when quite fresh.

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1905.  H. G. Wells, Kipps, III. iii. § 6. Such wrinkling of brow and mouth as only an experienced actor can produce.

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  b.  spec. (See quot.)

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1894.  Amer. Dict. Printing, 588/1. Wrinkling, an uneven surface in a book, caused by not being properly backed or pressed, or occasioned by dampness.

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