Crisp \Crisp\ (kr?sp), a. [AS. crisp, fr. L. crispus; cf.
carpere to pluck, card (wool), and E. harvest. Cf. Crape.]
1. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.
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2. Curled with the ripple of the water. [Poetic]
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You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . .
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Leave jour crisp channels. --Shak.
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3. 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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4. 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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5. Lively; sparking; effervescing.
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Your neat crisp claret. --Beau. & Fl.
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6. Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
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The snug, small room, and the crisp fire. --Dickens.
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Crisp \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 \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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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.
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2. 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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3. 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
adj 1: (of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp
photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the
crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot" [syn: sharp]
2: tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips" [syn: crispy]
3: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and
frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day";
"snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term) [syn: frosty,
nipping, nippy, snappy, parky]
4: pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when
chewed; "crisp carrot and celery sticks"; "a firm apple";
"crunchy lettuce" [syn: firm, crunchy]
5: in small tight curls [syn: frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy]
6: brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp
retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the
laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to
understand" [syn: curt, laconic, terse]
n : a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat [syn: chip,
potato chip, Saratoga chip]
v 1: make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress
got wrinkled" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle,
scrunch, scrunch up]
2: make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp
potatoes" [syn: toast]
WordNet (r) 2.0
212 Moby Thesaurus words for "crisp":
Siberian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, algid, aphoristic,
aposiopestic, arctic, axiomatic, below zero, biting, bitter,
bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, bracing, breakable, brief, brisk,
brittle, brittle as glass, brumal, brusque, cheering, chip,
clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut,
clipped, close, coherent, coil, cold, cold as charity,
cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, compact, compendious,
compressed, concise, condensed, connected, consistent, contracted,
cordial, crackable, crease, crimp, crinkly, crisped, crispy,
crumbly, crump, crushable, crystal-clear, crystalline, curl,
curled, curly, curt, cut, cutting, defined, definite, delicate,
direct, distinct, docked, dog-ear, double, double over, elliptic,
energizing, enfold, epigrammatic, exhilarating, explicit, express,
fissile, flimsy, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, formulaic,
formulistic, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, freezing,
freezing cold, fresh, friable, frigid, frill, frizzed, frizzly,
frizzy, gather, gelid, glacial, gnomic, hibernal, hiemal,
hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement,
infold, ingoing, interfold, invigorating, keen, kink, kinked,
kinky, lacerable, laconic, lap over, limpid, loud and clear, lucid,
luminous, nipping, nippy, numbing, pellucid, penetrating,
perspicuous, piercing, pinching, pithy, plain, plait, plat,
platitudinous, pleat, plicate, ply, pointed, proverbial, provoking,
pruned, pulverizable, pulverulent, pungent, quill, raw, refreshful,
refreshing, regaling, reserved, rigorous, rousing, ruff, ruffle,
scissile, sententious, severe, sharp, shatterable, shattery,
shivery, short, short and sweet, shortened, simple, sleety, slushy,
snappy, splintery, stimulating, stone-cold, straightforward,
subzero, succinct, summary, supercooled, synopsized, taciturn,
terse, tight, to the point, tonic, translucent, transparent,
transpicuous, trenchant, triturable, truncated, tuck, turn over,
twill, unambiguous, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal,
unmistakable, vulnerable, well-defined, winterbound, winterlike,
wintery, wintry, zestful, zesty
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
CRISP
Complex-Reduced Instruction Set Processor
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
crisp
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
CRISP
A Lisp-like language and compiler for the IBM 370
written by Jeff Barnett of SDC, Santa Monica, CA, USA in the
early 1970s. It generalised Lisp's two-part cons nodes to
n-part nodes.
(1994-11-10)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
Crisp, NC
Zip code(s): 27852
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Crisp -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 21996
Housing Units (2000): 9559
Land area (2000): 273.818336 sq. miles (709.186204 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.378025 sq. miles (19.108995 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 281.196361 sq. miles (728.295199 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 31.935851 N, 83.767514 W
Headwords:
Crisp
Crisp, GA
Crisp County
Crisp County, GA
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
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