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crisp englanniksi
(senseid)(non-gloss)
Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also , of a person: having hair curled in this manner.
(ux)
(RQ:Virgil Stanyhurst Aeneid)
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)
(RQ:Melville Pierre)
(RQ:R. F. Burton Lake Regions)
Of a of water, skin, etc.: having a surface which is rippled or wrinkled.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)
(RQ:Byron Don Juan)
(RQ:Black Green Pastures)
(synonym of); crisped.
(quote-book) II. Musci, Mosses.|title=Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Elmsley (bookseller)|Peter Elmsly (successor to Mr. Paul Vaillant)(nb...)|volume=II (Comprehending the Vegetable Kingdom)|section=paragraph 4|page=293|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3A5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA293|oclc=229931442|passage=''Feathered VVater Moſs''. Branched. Leaves criſp, feathered, undulated, pointing tvvo vvays.
(RQ:Ovid Golding Metamorphosis) (“shining legs”).
(RQ:Shakespeare Timon of Athens) (..) 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 ''(Titan)|Hyperions'' quickning fire doth ſhine: (..)
(RQ:Fletcher et al Bloody Brother) Fryer, you muſt leave / Your neat criſpe Clarret, and fall to your Syder / Avvhile; (..)
Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
(RQ:Palsgrave Lesclarcissement) as a thynge dothe that is cryſpe or britell bytwene ones tethe: ''le creſpe, prime cõiuga''.
(RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield) uſed every art to magnify the merit of her daughter. If the cakes at tea eat ſhort and criſp, they vvere made by Olivia: if the gooſeberry vvine vvas vvell knit, the gooſeberries vvere of her gathering: (..)
(RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia) (..)
(quote-book)
Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
(RQ:Hunt Indicator) What an exquisite dry old, vital, young-looking, everlasting twig it is! It has been plucked nine months, and looks as hale and as crisp as if it would last ninety years.
(quote-book) in association with House|Arrow Books|year_published=1988|page=101|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bait0000uhna/page/101/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-09-957980-9|passage=A crisp fresh odour of starch wafted from the cardboard-stiff jacket which covered a well-built, Sunday athlete's frame.
Of action, movement, a person's manner, etc.: precise and quick; brisk.
(antonyms)
(RQ:Collins Dead Secret) such a well-regulated mind, and such a crisp touch on the piano; (..)
(RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing)
(quote-book) in association with House|Arrow Books|year_published=1988|page=29|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bait0000uhna/page/29/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-09-957980-9|passage=Transit Patrolman Alexander looked a little upset. He was seeing for the first time the translation of the crisp, cold official words of police procedure into reality and he was groping.
(quote-book) in association with House|Arrow Books|year_published=1988|page=212|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bait0000uhna/page/212/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-09-957980-9|passage=Murray's eyes remembered the woman: small and crisp and clean and taking the little boy by the hand, carefully fussing over him, smiling at him.
(quote-web)'s pass 11 minutes into the second half proved enough to give (w)'s men a famous victory.
(senseid) Of air, weather, etc.: cool and dry; also, of a of time: characterized by such weather.
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol)
(quote-book) in association with House|Arrow Books|year_published=1988|page=72|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bait0000uhna/page/72/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-09-957980-9|passage=He sat in a small room with benches where Santino had placed him, handed him the crisp, freshly withdrawn fifty-dollar bills, while Santino set about getting a bail bondsman.
Of something heard or seen: clearly defined; clean, neat, sharp.
Not using logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
(non-gloss)
(senseid) ''In full'' crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
(synonyms)
(RQ:T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party)
(quote-song)
(quote-book): Nomad|location=London|publisher=Trapeze, Publishing Group|The Orion Publishing Group|page=47|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/alanpartridgenom0000coog/page/47/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-4091-5670-3|passage=As I sit in front of the TV angrily eating crisps, it comes to me. I will challenge her to a race.
''Sometimes with a descriptive word'': a crispy, savoury snack made of some other ingredient(s) (such as cornmeal or a vegetable) which is baked or deep-fried and eaten like a potato crisp.
(quote-book) are cheese puffs made of extruded cornmeal, and (snack)|Skips are deep-fried tapioca crackers.
(senseid) A type of baked dessert consisting of fruit topped with a crumbly mixture made with fat, flour, and sugar; a Q2006073|crumble.
A banknote; also, a number of banknotes collectively.
''Chiefly in'' to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or out|dried out.
(RQ:Twain Sketches)
(RQ:Duffet Mock-tempest). Anon they’l cut off ſlivers from us, as they did from the vvhole Ox, in St. ''James''’s Fair. / ''Gonz''(quote-gloss). Oh, ’tis intollerable: methinks I hear a great ſhe Devil, call for (quote-gloss) Groats vvorth of the Criſpe of my Countenance.—They are all for Griſtle.
(non-gloss)
A curly lock of hair, especially one which is tightly curled.
(RQ:T. Herbert Travaile)
A delicate fabric, possibly resembling crepe, especially used by women for veils or other coverings in the past; also, a head covering made of this fabric.
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)
(RQ:Purchas Microcosmus)
To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically , to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
(syn)
(circa), (w), ''English Housewifry,'' Leeds: James Lister, “To make Hare Soop,” p.(nbs)6,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004889672.0001.000
- (..) put it into a Dish, with a little stew’d Spinage, crisp’d Bread, and a few forc’d-meat Balls.
(quote-text)
To add small amounts of colour to (something); to tinge, to tint.
(quote-journal)|volume=120|month=December|titleurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028027293&view=1up&seq=834&q1=crisped|page=718|passage=It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,
(RQ:Lawrence Sea and Sardinia) Monte Pellegrino, a huge, inordinate mass of pinkish rock, hardly crisped with the faintest vegetation, looming up to heaven from the sea.
{{quote-text|en|year=1925|author=Warwick Deeping|title=Sorrell and Son|url=https://archive.org/details/sorrellson00deep|chapter=7|page=66|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|year_published=1926|location=New York
To become firm yet brittle; specifically , of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Shirley) the air chilled at sunset, the ground crisped, and ere dusk, a hoar frost was insidiously stealing over growing grass and unfolding bud.
(quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Black Cat|chapter=24|page=154|url=https://archive.org/details/gathering00enri|passage=Her hair feels fake, like a wig, but I think it is just crisping up under the dye and Frizz-Ease.
(quote-text) the flick of the wrist with which one rolls the half-set wafer on to the handle of a wooden spoon and then flips it on to the drying rack to crisp.
(quote-book) everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.
(quote-book) the wheels the carriage made their little crisping over the fine metal of the driveway.
1915, (w) (as Richard Dehan), “A Dish of Macaroni” in ''Off Sandy Hook,'' New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p.(nbs)39,https://archive.org/details/offsandyhookando00dehaiala/page/39
- (..) her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,
(quote-book) was heard this morning in every direction (..) the ‘noise accompanying the aurora,’
(quote-text)|publisher=Open Road Media|year_published=2012|section=Book 2|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=diB20l9iYZMC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false|passage=(..) the hot pavement by the playing field where the trees crisp together.
(quote-journal)
(senseid) (non-gloss)
To curl (something, such as fabric) into tight, stiff folds or waves; to crimp, to crinkle; specifically, to form (hair) into tight curls or ringlets.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice) those crisped snaky golden locks / Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
1609, ''(w),'' (w) 4.5,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11777.0001.001
- (..) the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie:
1630, (w), ''The Muses Elizium,'' London: John Waterson, “The Description of Elizium,” The fift Nimphall, p.(nbs)44,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20831.0001.001
- The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes
- Adornes his crisped Tresses:
(quote-book) the well known rhubarb of our gardens, with roundish crisped leaves.
(RQ:Douglass Bondage)
(RQ:Kipling Kim) on their road to and from school would have crisped a Western boy’s hair.
To cause (a of water) to undulate irregularly; to ripple.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) the crisped Brooks, / Rowling on Orient Pearl and sands of Gold|year=1873
1818, (w), ''(w),'' Canto(nbs)4, London: John Murray, stanza(nbs)53, p.(nbs)29,https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002023177v&view=1up&seq=55&q1=%22should%20crisp%22
- I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
- Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;
(RQ:Ruskin Modern Painters) when the breeze crisps the pool, you may see the image of the breakers, and a likeness of the foam.
(RQ:Joyce Portrait) he saw a flying squall darkening and crisping suddenly the tide.
(quote-book) he consider’d what an infinity of Muscles these laughing Rascals threw into a convulsive motion at the same time; whether we regard the spasms of the Diaphragm and all the muscles of respiration, the horrible ''rictus'' of the mouth, the distortion of the lower jaw, the crisping of the nose, twinkling of the eyes, or sphaerical convexity of the cheeks, with the tremulous succussion of the whole human body:
(quote-book) a slow torsion and crisping of all his nerves, beginning at his ankles, spread to every corner of his body till he had to shut his fists and teeth against the blind impulse to leap from his bed screaming.
To become curled into tight, stiff folds or waves.
(RQ:Gerard Herball)
(quote-book) a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal
Of a body of water: to ripple, to undulate.
1630, (w) (translator), ''Certaine selected epistles of (w),'' Saint-Omer: The English College Press, “The Epitaphe of S. Paula,” p.(nbs)96,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04384.0001.001
- Hitherto we haue sayled with a fore-wind, & our sliding ship hath plowed vp the crisping waues of the Sea at ease.
1832, (w), “The Lotos-Eaters,” Choric Song, V., in ''Poems,'' London: Moxon, p.(nbs)114,https://archive.org/details/poemstennalfr00tennrich/page/114
- To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,
- And tender curving lines of creamy spray:
(quote-book) the quick yielding of the waves that crisp and curl and ripple about my body.
Of a body part: to become twisted or wrinkled.
(quote-book) she gave no sign of the wave of repugnance that swept over her except that her fingers suddenly crisped.