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wrizzled, a. Now dial.|ˈrɪz(ə)ld|
Also wrizled (7 wristled, 8 wrisled).
[? var. of writhled a.]
Marked with creases, wrinkles, or corrugations; wrinkled, shrivelled.
The reading wrizled in Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. iii. 23 (where the authoritative texts have writhled) is due to Hanmer, 1744.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. viii. 47 Her wrizled skin as rough, as maple rind, So scabby was, that [etc.]. c1656Sir H. Cholmley Mem. (1870) 32 A wristled [finger] nail, as if it had been crushed. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 49 They look as awkward and wrisled as an old Company of Spaniards. 1708Gay Wine 9 Youthful fires..paint with ruddy hue His wrizzled Visage. 1777in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., A wrizled apple, a wrizled old woman. 1873–1898in Somerset and n. Yorks. glossaries. |