Defn: A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. [Colloq.]
WRINKLE
Wrin"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrinkling.]
1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." Milton. Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed. Pope.
2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as
decayed. Milton.
Then danced we on the wrinkled sand. Bryant.
To wrinkle at, to sneer at. [Obs.] Marston.
WRINKLE
Wrin"kle, v. i.
Defn: To shrink into furrows and ridges.
WRINKLY
Wrin"kly, a.
Defn: Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated;
puckered. G. Eliot.
His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last. Carlyle.
WRIST
Wrist, n. Etym: [OE. wriste, wrist, AS. wrist; akin to OFries.
wriust, LG. wrist, G. rist wrist, instep, Icel. rist instep, Dan. &
Sw. vrist, and perhaps to E. writhe.]
1. (Anat.)