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shrivelled, ppl. a.|ˈʃrɪv(ə)ld|
Also 6 shryveled, 7–8 shrivel'd, 7– (now U.S.) shriveled.
[f. shrivel v. + -ed1.]
Drawn together or contracted so as to have or form wrinkles and to appear as if dried up.
1565Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 173 The vayne and soyle of that grounde is not shryueled nor fleaten, but grene and full of grasse. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Flower ii, Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greenesse? 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 26 The Mannatee..her face is like a shriveled Buffolo or Cow. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 158 When..shrivell'd Herbs on with'ring Stems decay. 1726Pope Odyss. xix. 88 These lean shrivelled limbs unnerved with age. 1770Phil. Trans. LX. 304 A poor shriveled-up..carcase of a bird. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxix, Pushing him back from her with her trembling hand and shrivelled arm. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 91 Malt that is shrivelled is not of the best quality. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. vi. 63, I never saw him without thinking of a shrivelled crab apple.
b. Of persons whose skin is wrinkled or whose limbs are withered or ‘dried up’.
1605B. Jonson Volpone ii. i, Your shrivell'd sallad-eating artizans. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 114 A shrivelled old lady, with a face of parchment. 1846Mrs. Gore Engl. Char. (1852) 100 The name of French Cook conveys to the popular mind the image of a lean and shrivelled individual in a white nightcap and apron. 1877Tennyson Harold iii. i, I, old shrivell'd Stigand.
c. transf. and fig. Contracted, reduced to small proportions.
1628Donne Serm. (1660) III. iii. 37 That shiver'd, and shrivel'd, and ravel'd, and ruin'd soule. 1685Reflect. on Baxter 11 Such a shriveled account as R. B. gives of this Chapter. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 115 A repulsive countenance..indicative of a naturally shrivelled heart and contracted soul.
d. Comb.
1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. vii. 147 An extremely ancient and shrivelled-looking Bushman. 1859Boyd Recreat. Country Parson Ser. i. viii. 303 Some utilitarian old hunks, sharp-nosed, shrivelled-faced. |