writhled, a.
(ˈrɪð(ə)ld)
[app. f. the stem of writhe v.1 (see -le 3); but perh. an alteration of rivelled a.]
1. Of persons, the skin, etc.: Wrinkled; shrivelled, withered. Now Obs. exc. arch.
| 1565 Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Vultus, To make the face writheled and wrinkled. 1591 Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. iii. 23 This weake and writhled shrimpe. 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. 187 Cold, writhled Eld. 1649 Lovelace Poems (1904) 100 Cynthia spotted, she impure; Her body writheld. 1693 J. H. tr. Juv. Sat. x. 11 A writhled and discouler'd skin. 1865 Swinburne Poems & Ball., St. Dorothy 445 This makes him sad and writhled in his face. |
| Comb. a 1656 R. Cox Actæon & Diana 4 A writhled fac'd companion. |
† 2. Rough; shaggy.
Obs. rare—1.
| c 1600 Timon v. iv. (1842) 86 An vnshorne heade, a writhled beard, beetle browed. |