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   Crisp , a. [AS. crisp, fr. L. crispus; cf. carpere to pluck, card (wool), and E. harvest. Cf. Crape.]
   Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.
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   Curled with the ripple of the water. [Poetic]
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   You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . 
   Leave jour crisp channels.
   Shak.
   
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   Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.
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   The cakes at tea ate short and crisp.
   Goldsmith.
   
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   Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
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   It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years.
   Leigh Hunt.
   
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   Lively; sparking; effervescing.
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   Your neat crisp claret.
   Beau. & Fl.
   
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   Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
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   The snug, small room, and the crisp fire.
   Dickens.
   
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   Crisp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crisped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Crisping.] [L. crispare, fr. crispus. See Crisp. a. ]
   To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.
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   To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.
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   The lover with the myrtle sprays
   Adorns his crisped tresses.
   Drayton.
   
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   Along the crisped shades and bowers.
   Milton.
   
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   The crisped brooks,
   Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold.
   Milton.
   
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   To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.
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   Crisping iron, an instrument by which hair or any textile fabric is crisped. -- Crisping pin, the simplest form of crisping iron. Is. iii. 22.
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   Crisp, v. i. To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.
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   To watch the crisping ripples on the beach.
   Tennuson.
   
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   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.
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