wimpling

Verb

wimple (third-person singular simple present wimples, present participle wimpling, simple past and past participle wimpled)

1. To cover with a wimple.
   • this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boyc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
   • IV A lovely Ladie[*] rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed...1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921
3. To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
   • The wind wimples the surface of water.
4. To flutter.
   • Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.1920, George Allan England, The Flying Legion

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