a. Now dial. Also wrizled (7 wristled, 8 wrisled). [? var. of WRITHLED a.] Marked with creases, wrinkles or corrugations; wrinkled, shrivelled.
The reading wrizled in Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., II. iii. 23 (where the authoritative texts have writhled) is due to Hanmer, 1744.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 47. Her wrizled skin as rough, as maple rind, So scabby was, that [etc.].
c. 1656. Sir H. Cholmley, Mem. (1870), 32. A wristled [finger] nail, as if it had been crushed.
1705. trans. Bosman’s Guinea, 49. They look as awkward and wrisled as an old Company of Spaniards.
1708. Gay, Wine, 9. Youthful fires … paint with ruddy hue His wrizzled Visage.
1777. in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v. A wrizled apple, a wrizled old woman.
1873–98. in Somerset and n. Yorks. glossaries.
