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Crisped

Crisp \Crisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crisped (kr?spt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crisping.] [L. crispare, fr. crispus. See Crisp. a. ]

  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.
    --Drayton.

    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.

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crisped

vb. (en-past of: crisp)

Usage examples of "crisped".

She'd heard of one mage crisped to ash and cinders by a blast sent through his spy-eye.

Another wingmate had swooped to catch the rider, but the green dragon, his left wing crisped, his body scorched, had died of shock and phosphine poisoning.

They flew through patches of fine dust, the residue of crisped Thread.

She did not even know whether to trust fully the texts she had ferreted out in the unvisited depths of the Library, dusty, damp, wormholed, water-damaged tomes with page edges of whole sections blackened, crisped, and crumbling as if they had survived some unimaginable war.

Lujon sipped his drink, watching, it would seem, the clouds down at the horizon curling up like paper crisped in the fire of sunrise.

What remained was a ring of charred blackness, studded with misshapen lumps which, as they high-stepped over the charcoaled ground, they discovered were the crisped bodies of their compatriots.

Bass knew what that meant—they were going to be crisped by their own fire.

As the horse leaped over the position, Chan crisped the victorious rider, who fell screaming and writhing in flaming agony.

Especially since I knew crisped well the griffins wouldn't have anything to do with me--they felt sorry for Mama, but they weren't about to have anything to do with her as long as I was there.

You didn't get singed and crisped and burned so bad you fell a hundred feet into a treetop!

He struck a spark and breathed on it as the grasses crisped around it, breathed the spark into flame, blew gently on it until the stick caught fire, and blew harder and harder until the flames surrounded it Then he sat back on his heels with a sigh and looked up to see Yverne gazing down at him--and she was looking rather bitter.