writhled
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writhled (comparative more writhled, superlative most writhled)
- (obsolete) wrinkled
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- It cannot be, this weak and writhled shrimp / Should strike such terror to his enemies.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 47:
- Her writhled skin, as rough as maple rind
- 1598, John Marston, fourth Satire, b.i.
- Cold, writhled eld, his lives-wet almost spent.
Synonyms[edit]
- bewrinkled, rugose, wrinkly; see also Thesaurus:wrinkled
References[edit]
- “writhle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.