4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dimple \Dim"ple\, n. [Prob. a nasalized dim. of dip. See {Dip},
and cf {Dimble}.]
1. A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface
of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.
--Milton.
The dimple of her chin. --Prior.
2. A slight indentation on any surface.
The garden pool's dark surface . . . Breaks into
dimples small and bright. --Wordsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dimple \Dim"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dimpled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Dimpling}.]
To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little
inequalities.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dimple \Dim"ple\, v. t.
To mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dimple
n 1: any slight depression in a surface; "there are approximately
336 dimples on a golf ball"
2: a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin; "His dimple
appeared whenever he smiled"
v 1: mark with or as if with dimples; "drops dimpled the smooth
stream"
2: produce dimples while smiling; "The child dimpled up to the
adults"
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