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Brittle; crisp. Wright.

To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne.

The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. Smollett.

To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. Pepys.

To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle. Gay. To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively.

Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.

Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

To cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.

ry dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

rsley. -- Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves resembling parsley (Cryptogramme crispa). -- Parsley piert (Bot.), a small herb (Alchemilla arvensis) formerly used as a remedy for calculus.

A crisp, hard, thin paper, sometimes used for postage stamps.

fection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

To bind (together); to enchain. [Obs.] Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned. Robert of Brunne.

A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (Rumex crispus) and identical with chrysophanic acid.

A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or a kind of sweetened biscuit.

To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic] July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. Lowell.

The crisp substance that remains after trying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.

Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.

A small crisp cake, highly spiced.