▪ I. † rivel, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 4–6 ryuel (4 reuel), 5 ryvel, 6–7 riuel, 7 riuil, -ell, rivel.
[Perh. repr. an OE. *rifel, whence rifelede rivelled a.]
A wrinkle or fold upon the skin (esp. of the face) or on the rind of a fruit.
| 1382 Wyclif Job xvi. 9 My ryuelis seyn witnesse aȝen me. 1387 Trevisa tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 257 He haþ a large ryuel, as it were a bagge, vnder þe chynne. 1398 ― Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxi. (Bodl. MS.), It is iseide þat figes doþ awei reuels of olde men ȝif þei ete wele þerof. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 24273 Thou mayst se, by my lokkes hore, and by ryvels of my visage, How that I am called ‘Age’. 1545 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 11 Though that the matrix..be full of ryuelles or wrinkles by the reason that it is so contract from a great amplytude. 1601 Holland Pliny xii. vii, It wanteth the due parching and ripening against the sunne: and by that meanes commeth short of the rivels and blacknesse that the outlandish pepper hath. Ibid. xviii. xii, It causeth the skin to looke cleare and white, and without any rivels or wrinkles. 1632 Sherwood, A riuell, ride. |
| fig. 1598 E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 43 And leauing it their lothsome playstered skins, Shall shew the furrowed riuels of their sins. |
▪ II. † ˈrivel, n.2 Obs.—1
[Cf. rivel v.2]
A ravel or tangle.
| ? a 1630 Jackson Wks. (1673) II. 513 You haue perhaps already espied..a knot or rivel, wherewith your beliefs..may be entangled. |
▪ III. ˈrivel, n.3 rare—1.
A rivulet.
| 1886 Leifchild in Contemp. Rev. July 90 'Tis A full-fed rivel lapsing by. |
▪ IV. ˈrivel, v.1 Now rare.
Forms: 4 rivele, 5 ryvel, 6 ryvell, 7 rivell, 8 rival, 4– rivel; 4, 6 ryuel, 4–7 riuel.
[Cf. rivelled a.]
1. intr. To become wrinkled or shrivelled; to form wrinkles or small folds.
| c 1325 Old Age in Rel. Ant. II. 211, I rivele, I roxle, I rake, I rouwe. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 98 Hire chekes ben with teres wet, And rivelen as an emty skyn Hangende doun unto the chin. c 1400 Rom. Rose 7262 And highe shoes, knopped with dagges,..Or botes riveling as a gype. 1530 Palsgr. 692/2, I ryvell, as ones vysage dothe for age, je ride. 1540 R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) F iij, The tender skinne will ryvill the more soone, and all the favour of the face waxeth old. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 357 Some will last a whole yeare and not wither and rivell. 1657 C. Beck Univ. Charac. K v b, To rivell or wrinckle. |
2. trans. To cause (the skin) to wrinkle or pucker; to shrivel up.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 95 It riueleth the face. 1585 R. Parsons Chr. Exer. ii. iii. 268 Quickly commeth on olde age, which riueleth the skinne. 1609 N. F. Fruiterers Secr. 15 Neither layed in a windy colde roome, for feare of shrinking and riueling them. 1638 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. vi. iii. (1651) 561 Raging time, care, rivels her upon a sudden. a 1704 T. Brown Sat. agst. Woman Wks. 1730 I. 55 Till the devouring heat..Rival thy body, and distort thy mind. 1868 Browning Ring & Bk. i. 1279 And death came, death's breath rivelled up the lies. 1893 S.E. Worc. Gloss. s.v., He rivelled 'is brow. |
| absol. 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. vi. vii, This pouldre..dryeth, riveleth, or wrynkleth, and incarneth not a lytle. |
▪ V. † ˈrivel, v.2 Obs.
Also 4 ryuel, reuel, 6 ryvell.
[ad. obs. F. rivler (Walloon rifler) to ravel. Cf. rivel n.2]
1. intr. a. To become entangled.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4629 Ropes ryueled and swerued [Petyt MS. reueld & snarled] in lyne. |
b. To ravel or fray out.
| 1530 Palsgr. 692/2, I ryvell out, as sylke dothe, je riule. |
2. trans. To open out by unravelling.
| 1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes 297 'Tis in the hands of all men, and rivels out the generall subject into many particulars. |