wimple

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A cloth wound around the head, framing the face, and drawn into folds beneath the chin, worn by women in medieval times and as part of the habit of certain orders of nuns.
2. n. A fold or pleat in cloth.
3. n. A ripple, as on the surface of water.
4. n. A curve or bend.
5. v. To cover with or dress in a wimple.
6. v. To cause to form folds, pleats, or ripples.
7. v. Archaic To form or lie in folds.
8. v. To ripple.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A covering of silk, linen, or other material laid in folds over the head and round the chin, the sides of the face, and the neck, formerly worn by women out of doors, and still retained as a conventual dress for nuns.
2. n. A plait or fold.
3. n. A loose or fluttering piece of cloth of any sort; a pennon or flag.
4. To cover with or as with a wimple or veil; deck with a wimple; hide with a wimple.
5. To hood wink.
6. To lay in plaits or folds; draw down in folds.
7. To resemble or suggest wimples; undulate; ripple: as, a brook that wimples onward.
8. To lie in folds; make folds or irregular plaits.

Wiktionary

1. n. A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
2. n. A fold or pleat in cloth.
3. n. A ripple, as on the surface of water.
4. n. A curve or bend.
5. v. To cover with a wimple.
6. v. To draw down; to lower.
7. v. To cause to ripple.
8. v. To flutter.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
2. n. A flag or streamer.
3. v. To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
4. v. To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
5. v. To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
6. v. To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women