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To wrinkle at

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.