Middle English Dictionary Entry
runklen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | runklen v. Also runkil(le, rounclen, rongle; p.ppl. runkled, rouncled, rungilt, ronkled, roncled & (error) roubled. |
| Etymology | From runkel n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. wrinklen v.
1.
To become wrinkled; also, to wrinkle (sth.); ppl. runkled, wrinkled.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)8085 : Þaire armys hery wiþ rungilt hide ware sette to þe elbowes in þaire side.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)953 : Riche red on þat on rayled ay-quere, Rugh, ronkled chekez þat oþer on rolled.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)773 : Bot als tyte als a man waxes alde..Þan..his face rouncles ay mare and mare.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)3/13 : Þi face schal rongle & alle þi lemes schal feblen.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)145a/b : Þai sewe þe wounde & leueþ þe threde wiþin, And so þe dindime is corrugate [L corrugatur], i. roncled, & constreyned.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)150b/a : Þe ȝerd is..wiþoute herez, rede, grosse, rugose [Ch.(2): wryncly; L rugosa], i. roubled, & yuel coloured.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)83/17 : Þai gader þe fruyt and driez it at þe sonne and seyne layez it apon a flure til it becom blakk and runklid.
- c1450 My ladyes (Frf 16)66 : Whoso that..seyth Your roncled face..Your shrunkyn lyppis..How may he lyue fro dystresse and payne.
- ?a1475 Pilgr.LM in EETS 75 (StJ-C G.21:H&W)313 fn. : I am elded and by-comen rouncled [Cmb: riueled; F ridee] and frounced and discolowred.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)106a : To Rwnkyll [Monson: Runkylle]: Rugare, Irrugare.