Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WRINK'LE, v.t. [Sax. wrinclian; Sw. rynka; Dan. rynker.]

1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to corrugate; as, to wrinkle the skin; to wrinkle the brow. Her wrinkled form in black and white array'd. – Pope.
2. To make rough or uneven. A keen north wind, blowing dry, / Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decay'd. – Milton.