crisp

Senses relating to curliness.

crisp hair

A certeyn lightning on his headtop gliſtered harmeleſſe. / His criſp locks frizeling, his temples prettelye ſtroaking.

Senses relating to curliness.

[T]hree times did they drinke / Vpon agreement of ſvvift Seuerns floud, / VVho then affrighted vvith their bloudie lookes, / Ran fearefully among the trembling reedes, / And hid his criſpe-head in the hollovv banke, / Bloud-ſtained vvith theſe valiant combatants, […]

You Nimphs cald Nayades of yͤ vvindring brooks, / VVith your ſedg'd crovvnes, and euer-harmleſſe lookes, / Leaue your criſpe channels, and on this greene-Lane / Anſvvere your ſummons, Iuno do's command.

Senses relating to curliness.

Feathered VVater Moſs. Branched. Leaves criſp, feathered, undulated, pointing tvvo vvays.

Senses relating to curliness.

One whyle hée at my necke dooth ſnatch / Another whyle my cléere criſp legges be ſtriueth for too catch, / Or trippes at mée: and euerywhere the vauntage he dooth watch.

Common Mother [Nature] […] vvhoſe ſelfeſame Mettle […] Engenders the blacke Toad, and Adder blevv, / The gilded Nevvt, and eyeleſſe venom'd VVorme, / VVith all th'abhorred Births belovv Criſpe Heauen, / VVhereon Hyperions quickning fire doth ſhine: […]

Senses relating to brittleness.

The crisp snow crunched underfoot.

Our customers in the produce department expect crisp apples and firm bananas.

Senses relating to something brittle.

Edward, give me another of those delicious olives. / What's that? Potato crisps? No, I can't endure them.

I was buying some crisps and pop when there was a noisy clatter on the bare floorboards and something hit my right heel. It was a white cue ball.

Senses relating to something brittle.

kale crisps    prawn crisp

When she’s not writing, Katie spends her time with her husband and two kids, and their dogs: Wotsit, the King Charles spaniel, and Skips, the three-legged rescue dog. (And yes, they are both named after crisps!)

Senses relating to something brittle.

Senses relating to something brittle.

Senses relating to something brittle.

He bears my name—Glendinning. I will disown it; were it like this dress, I would tear my name off from me, and burn it till it shriveled to a crisp!

And, oh, to think she should meet such a death at last!—a sitting over the red-hot stove at three o'clock in the morning and went to sleep and fell on it and was actually roasted! Not just frizzled up a bit, but literally roasted to a crisp!

Senses relating to brittleness.

to crisp bacon by frying it

c. 1752, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifry, Leeds: James Lister, “To make Hare Soop,” p. 6, […] put it into a Dish, with a little stew’d Spinage, crisp’d Bread, and a few forc’d-meat Balls.

Senses relating to brittleness.

It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,

[…] Monte Pellegrino, a huge, inordinate mass of pinkish rock, hardly crisped with the faintest vegetation, looming up to heaven from the sea.

Senses relating to brittleness.

to put celery into ice water to crisp

[…] the air chilled at sunset, the ground crisped, and ere dusk, a hoar frost was insidiously stealing over growing grass and unfolding bud.

Senses relating to brittleness.

[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.

[…] the wheels [of the carriage] made their little crisping over the fine metal of the driveway.

Senses relating to curliness.

[…] those crisped snaky golden locks / Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,

1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5, […] the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie: