Part 2590

<blockquote>Along the <b>crisped</b> shades and bowers. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>crisped</b> brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.</def>

<cs><col>Crisping iron</col>, <cd>an instrument by which hair or any textile fabric is crisped.</cd> -- <col>Crisping pin</col>, <cd>the simplest form of crisping iron. <i>Is. iii. 22.</i></cd></cs>

<h1>Crisp</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crisp</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To undulate or ripple. Cf. <er>Crisp</er>, <i>v. t.</i></def>

<blockquote>To watch the <b>crisping</b> ripples on the beach. <i>Tennuson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crisp</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crisp</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; <as>as, burned to a <ex>crisp</ex></as>; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.</def>

<h1>Crispate krspt, Crispated</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw><hw>Cris"pate</hw> <tt>(kr?s"p?t)</tt>, <hw>Cris"pa*ted</hw> <tt>(-p?-t?d)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>crispatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>crispare</ets>.]</ety> <def>Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.</def>

<h1>Crispation</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Cris*pa"tion</hw> <tt>(kr?s-p?"sh?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[CF. F. <ets>crispation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.</def>

<blockquote>Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and <b>crispations</b>. <i>O. W. Holmes.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crispature</h1> <Xpage=345>

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

<h1>Crisper</h1> <Xpage=345>

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

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<hw>Cris"pin</hw> <tt>(kr?s"p?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A member of a union or association of shoemakers.</def>

<h1>Crisply</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crisp"ly</hw> <tt>(kr?sp"l?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a crisp manner.</def>

<h1>Crispness</h1> <Xpage=345>

<hw>Crisp"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being crisp.</def>

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