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Crisper

Crisper \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.

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crisper

a. (en-comparative of: crisp) n. 1 A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration. 2 The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher temperature than the rest of the refrigerator. 3 An instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth.

Usage examples of "crisper".

She went to the kitchen, put the kettle on to boil, fetched the ginger root from the crisper of the fridge and the Demerara sugar in its cookie tin from the cupboard, along with the nutmeg.

He scraped away the ashes and revealed the cakes, now a bit crisper than they had been, and a bit grimier, but still edible.

Fern would put him in charge of a castle filled with treasures, because he always leaves a place neater, crisper, more loved than it was when he moved in.

Captain Yargoul of the Jovian Battle Cruiser Windstorm to Captain Crisper of the Plutonian Battle Cruiser Dragon.

Letting the potatoes cool to room temperature for an hour or two between fryings seems to make Idaho potatoes come out crisper in the end, but has little effect on waxier potatoes.

They did not see her, and she caught a phrase in Bibbs's mellow voice, which had taken a crisper ring: "Sixty-eight thousand dollars?

In Claire's experience, most crispers held two moldy tomatoes and a head of mushy lettuce but not Dean's.

With each accelerating stride, his focus grew crisper, more sublimely clear, his mind already assessing the problem with mathematical precision, showing him his angle of attack.

The air became crisper the higher they went, and from time to time they came to places where ice yet clung stubbornly to enshadowed clefts.

Her mouth was a grim line as she thawed a salad in the nuker and rinsed the crisper gel off the lettuce into the sink, then dumped a packet of crab chunks on top and covered it in horseradish sauce.

Even the white lab coats worn by the personnel seemed crisper and whiter than in any of the other labs.

The photographs are certainly much better than I remember from those old photonovels of my youth -- crisper, great angles, and the layouts are particularly intriguing -- but I have to admit that this still isn't a medium that I'd normally seek out.

Instead, Wesley had to command a chaseum bar replicated, remove it from the replicator nook, visually compare it to a real bar of gpl, then return the chaseum to the replicatot with instructions to make the stamp indentation deeper or the starburst insignia crisper, to rework the outer frill or move the portrait to the left a bit.