Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wrinkle.
- Same as
wry .
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- noun obsolete
deep wrinkle
Etymologies
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Alteration (due to wrinkle) of earlier rine "ditch, trench" from Middle English rune, rone from Old English ryne "a watercourse, flow" from rinnan "to run". More at run, runnel.
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