a. [f. WRINKLE sb. + -Y1.] Full of, marked with, wrinkles; creased; puckered; crumpled.
1573. Twyne, Æneid., X. Dd iv b. Him Tryton … blew with whelked shell, Whose wrinckly wreathed flue, did fearful shril in seas outyell.
1687. A. Lovell, trans. Thevenot’s Trav., II. 117. The Fruit being ripe is wrinkly.
1742. Shenstone, Schoolmistr., xxix. Sour’d by age,… he … furls his wrinkly front.
1793. Holcroft, trans. Lavater’s Physiog., vii. 46. Foreheads … which are wrinkly, short and shining.
1854. R. S. Surtees, Handley Cr., lxxv. The Captain older and more wrinkly than she expected.
1882. Sladen, in Jrnl. Linn. Soc., XVI. 197. The whole membrane becomes very thick and wrinkly.
transf. 1872. Geo. Eliot, Middlem., xxxii. Mrs. Waule … giving occasional dry wrinkly indications of crying.
