Verb

(wimpl)

To cover with a wimple.

* Shakespeare

this wimpled , whining, purblind, wayward boy

To draw down; to lower, like a veil.

* {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation

, passage=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 in heart some hidden care she had, 35 And by her in a line a milke white lambe she lad.}}

To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.

The wind wimples the surface of water.

To flutter.

* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=George Allan England, title=The Flying Legion, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1836, author=Joseph Rodman Drake, title=The Culprit Fay, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=She wimpled about in the pale moonbeam, Like a feather that floats on a wind tossed-stream; And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back, And the fluttering scallop behind would float, And patter the water about the boat; But he bailed her out with his colen-bell, And he kept her trimmed with a wary tread, While on every side like lightening fell}}