单词 | rimple |
释义 | rimplen. Now rare (chiefly U.S. in later use). 1. A wrinkle, a crinkle, a small crease or fold; (also) an undulation. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [noun] > wrinkle rimpleeOE rivellingOE rivelc1325 crow's footc1374 frounce1390 wrinklea1400 frumplec1440 freckle1519 line1538 lirkc1540 shrivel1547 plait1574 furrow1589 trench1594 crowfoot1614 seam1765 thought-line1858 laughter line1867 laugh line1913 smile-line1921 worry lines1972 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [noun] > wrinkled condition > wrinkle or crease rimpleeOE frouncec1374 runklea1400 wrinklea1420 ruge?a1425 crimple1440 wreathc1440 wrimple1499 rumple?a1513 scrumple?a1513 wimple1513 crease1578 bag1587 crinkle1596 pucker1598 press1601 crumple1607 creasing1665 ruck1774 cramp1828 fold1840 ruckle1853 bumfle1867 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 209 Rugis [sulcata senectus], hrympellum. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 434 Rympyl [Winch. Rymbyle], or rymple, ruga, rugadia. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 10376 Ner rymple aspyin in hyr no man myht. 1548 G. Joye tr. U. Zwingli Rekenynge & Declar. Fayth (new ed.) vi. sig. Bv Of whiche churche Paule speaketh where he sayth. It hath neither rymple nor spot. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 22 The great Bistorte hath long leaues..wrinkled or drawen into rimples. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. iv. i. f. 18/2 The skinne beinge cutt accordinge to the runninge of the rimples, might chaunce to fall on the eyes. 1663 Cup of Coffee (single sheet) If any be thus craz'd, and by the Rimples About his Nose, you fear he'll fall i' th' Simples. 1682 Philos. Collections No. 5. 154 A single Muscular string, wherein I have often seen certain rings or circular rimples. 1682 J. Hooke Minute 12 Apr. (Hooke Folio Online) 595 The same [Mr. Hooke] also shewed part of a flesh muscle in a microscope but the Rimples mentioned by Mr. Lewenhoek could not be Discouered. 1817 European Mag. & London Rev. Sept. 207/2 Erecting his brows into a lighter rimple of harmless anticipation. 1873 Manufacturer & Builder Oct. 240/2 Lay the map on the cloth, only taking care to do this smoothly and to avoid rimples. 1888 J. Hunter-Duvar De Roberval 183 Her low, white brow was broad, with banded hair, Like the Madonna's hair of ruddy brown, But with a wavy rimple in't. 1916 S. F. Whitman Children of Hope iv. 81 Thalia leaned forward..her fingers knitted before her milk-white throat, of which the double rimple showed between the ruffles of her corn-yellow gown. 1921 A. Stringer Twin Tales vii. 267 Extremes of heat and cold obviously had imposed a slight rimple of fine lines on its [sc. a canvas's] surface. 2. A ripple on the surface of water. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Orkney and Angus in 1968. ΚΠ 1811 M. R. Mitford Poems (ed. 2) 57 The silken ringlets freely wind; Now on her snowy forehead wave, Now sport around her fair cheek's dimple, Which passes like the calm lake's rimple. 1850 J. L. Blake Farmer's Every-day Bk. 226 We would again gather pebbles, casting one by one upon its silvery bosom, causing rimple after rimple. 1918 L. D. Goldsberry Ted & Other Stories 140 Every glow in the sunset glows in the river; deep-burned in the rimple of waters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rimplev. Now chiefly U.S. intransitive and transitive. To form into small folds or undulations; to wrinkle; esp. (of water) to ripple.Apparently rare in the 16th and 17th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > corrugate [verb (transitive)] > wrinkle or crease frounce1390 frumple1398 crunklec1400 plighta1425 crinklec1430 crimple1440 rimple1440 rivel1543 wrinkle1543 crease1588 shrivel1609 befrumple1611 frowze1611 wrimple1611 pucker1616 furl1689 ruck1706 runkle1720 crink1821 furrow1853 crumple1858 ruckle1866 bumfle1911 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 103 (MED) Crymplyn, or rymplyn: Rugo. c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 305 (MED) Blemysshed is thy angelyke vysage..Thyn oryent skyn shall rympell in-to age. 1739 J. B. de Freval tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature IV. 83 A Pond, whose Surface rimples under the Breath of the gentlest Zephyr. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest III. xvi. 96 The air [was] so still, that it scarcely..rimpled the broad expanse of the waters below. 1794 R. Gray Lett. Tour Germany viii. 81 The whole river, after rimpling and foaming over several scattered breakers, runs, by different channels, against some beautiful rocks. a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) I. 424 The burnie rimpling alang And laughing as it rins. 1885 M. Thompson By-ways & Bird Notes 130 We watched the little flurries of wind rimple the river's face. 1916 C. M. Doughty Titans iv. 89 A gentle breath, After days heat, moves on that waters face; Whose liquid foot rimples to friendly strand. 1922 D. M. Kenyon in D. M. Kenyon & J. B. Kenyon Spring Flowers & Rowen 39 A soft breeze rimpled the curtain. 1949 M. Henry Sea Star xv. 149 The face rimpled into a sudden smile. 1996 D. S. Norling Patty's Journey (1998) x. 103 I scrutinized grainy newspaper photographs of anyone named Yvonne who could be about two years my senior, looking to see if she rimpled her chin when she posed for a picture. 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