2. A slight indentation on any surface. The garden pool's dark surface . . . Breaks into dimples small and bright. Wordsworth.
DIMPLE
Dim"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dimpled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dimpling.]
Defn: To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little
inequalities.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden.
DIMPLE
Dim"ple, v. t.
Defn: To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions. Shak.
DIMPLEMENT
Dim"ple*ment, n.
Defn: The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions.
[R.]
The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.
DIMPLY
Dim"ply, a.
Defn: Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson.
DIM-SIGHTED
Dim"-sight`ed, a.