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Crisp   /krɪsp/   Listen
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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"Crisp" Quotes from Famous Books



... brother down to the marsh. Along the breezy top of the dike the boys walked rapidly, one behind the other, the dike top being narrow. It was near low tide, and the creek clamored cheerfully along the bottom of its naked red channel. A crisp, salty fragrance came from the moist slopes and gullies; and here and there a little pond, left behind by the ebb, gleamed like flames in ...
— The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage • Charles G. D. Roberts

... his hungry compatriots led, Where Freedom's viands were thickly spread, With all that man or woman could eat, From crisp to sticky—from sour to sweet. There were chickens that scarce had learned to crow, And veteran roosters of long ago; There was one old turkey, huge and fierce, That was hatched in the days of President Pierce; Of which, ...
— Farm Ballads • Will Carleton

... grass. Their little noses touched. And for a moment in the midst of the wild sorrel, they exchanged kisses. They played. Then slowly, side by side, guided by hunger, they set out for a small farm lying low in the shadow. In the poor vegetable garden into which they penetrated there were crisp cabbages and spicy thyme. Nearby the stable was breathing; the pig protruded its mobile snout, sniffing, under the ...
— Romance of the Rabbit • Francis Jammes

... green fields beneath the hueless sky. They do not stay for question, do not hear Any old human speech: their tongue and ear Seem only thought, for when I spoke they stirred not And their bright minds conversing my ear heard not. —Until I slept or, musing, on a heap Of warm crisp fern lay between sense and sleep Drowsy, still clinging to a strand of thought Spider-like frail and all unconscious wrought. For thinking of that unforgettable thing, The war, that spreads a loud and shaggy wing On things most peaceful, simple, ...
— Poems New and Old • John Freeman

... a tremor of the eyelids, showed that consciousness was returning to the wounded man. Almost at the same instant Ponto raised his head, and ran off through the trees, whining. A man's footsteps were presently heard coming rapidly over the crisp snow. It was Mr. Holt: and a mountain load of responsibility and dread was lifted from Linda's mind at the sight of him. This was not the first time that she had felt in his presence the soothing sense ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe


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