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adjective

Crisp adj.

1.

Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

2.

Curled with the ripple of the water. (Poetic) "You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks... Leave jour crisp channels."

3.

Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. "The cakes at tea ate short and crisp."

4.

Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. "It (laurel) has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years."

5.

Lively; sparking; effervescing. "Your neat crisp claret."

6.

Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively. "The snug, small room, and the crisp fire."

noun

Crisp n. That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.

verb

Crisp v. t. (past & past part. crisped; pres. part. crisping)

1.

To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

2.

To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. "The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses." "Along the crisped shades and bowers." "The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold."

3.

To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.

Crisping iron, an instrument by which hair or any textile fabric is crisped.

Crisping pin, the simplest form of crisping iron.

Crisp v. i. To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t. "To watch the crisping ripples on the beach."

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Etymology of 'Crisp'

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"Crisp" Quotes from Famous Books

... invited, then, to step into a neat and attractive modern apartment kitchen, say three years ago. The grocery boy had just left. Everything was there, and of unusually good quality—crisp lettuce, golden oranges, the inevitable loaf of whole wheat bread, the sugar and lemons—and as the housekeeper compared the articles with the grocer's book which she held in her hand, she gave a start. Some one across the way was playing ...

— Edward MacDowell • Elizabeth Fry Page

... to Surface.—(9) The body is covered with hair which is not crisp or woolly; (10) the hair of the head is short; (18) the color of ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various

... part of a scheme for a general attack, and general attacks are affairs that cannot be postponed or expedited as easily as a cold lunch. But the Subaltern filled in the time of waiting, and when the orders did come he was ready for them or any other. They were clear and crisp—he was to fire the mine, but only at the latest possible minute. That was all he got, and indeed all he wanted; and, since they did not concern him, there is no need here to tell of the swirl of other orders that buzzed and ...

— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable

... sprinkling of snow the day before, and the grass was crisp and rough. She felt it crush under her feet with a keen sense of enjoyment. Instinctively she put all her buoyant strength into the run. She left Jeanie behind, overtook and passed the two younger children, and raced like a hare down the slope. ...

— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell

... trees were the beginning of a wood—a pretty little wood with a tiny stream running through the middle, and little nests of ferns and mosses in among the stones and tree-stumps on its banks—a very pretty little wood it must be in summer-time with the trees more fully out and the ground dry and crisp, and clear of the last year's leaves which still gave it a desolate appearance. Hoodie's spirits rose. She was getting on famously. Soon she might expect to see the grandmother's cottage, where no doubt the kettle would be boiling on the fire to make tea for her, and the table all ...

— Hoodie • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

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