Part 664

Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton.

The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.

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. Is. iii. 22.

Crisp, v. i. To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.

To watch the crisping ripples on the beach. Tennuson.

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.

{ Cris"pate (kr?s"p?t), Cris"pa*ted (-p?- t?d), } a. [L. crispatus, p. p. of crispare.] Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

Cris*pa"tion (kr?s-p?"sh?n), n. [CF. F. crispation.] 1. The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. Bacon.

2. A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.

Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

Cris"pa*ture (kr?s"p?-t?r; 135), n. The state of being crispate.

Crisp"er (kr?s"p?r), n. One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

Cris"pin (kr?s"p?n), n. 1. A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.

2. A member of a union or association of shoemakers.

Crisp"ly (kr?sp"l?), adv. In a crisp manner.

Crisp"ness, n. The state or quality of being crisp.

Crisp"y (-?), a. 1. Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

2. Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.

Cris"sal (kr?s"sal), a. (Zo÷l.) 1. Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.

2. Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.

Criss"cross` (kr?s"kr?s`; 115), n. [A corruption of Christcross.] 1. A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

2. A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.

Criss"cross`, v. t. To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.

Criss"cross` (kr?s"kr?s`;115), adv. 1. In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.

Logs and tree luing crisscross in utter confusion. W. E. Boardman.

2. With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.

Criss"cross-row` (-r?`), n. See Christcross-row.