The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crisp \Crisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crisped (kr?spt); 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.
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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. (cx topology English) (rfdef: English) vb. (present participle of crisp English)
Usage examples of "crisping".
It caught their little ship broadside and blinded them for a moment, crisping one lobe.
The crisping mask of her face was horrid to see, and Beheim now felt nothing of vengeance, no hint of triumph.
The backs of his hands were crisping, the blackened skin cracking to reveal an angry redness beneath, and Beheim, without thinking why he acted, leaped across the pit and pushed him in.
While they writhed on the ground and struggled to continue, Iblis shot two more rockets into their preservation canisters, spilling the electrafluids and crisping the organic brain tissue to cinders.
In a blind panic, he 42 Tad Williams dragged himself across the crisping grass of the tent floor toward what looked like a patch of cool darkness, only to find his face pushed up against some black, slippery fab ric.