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Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

Ending in a point.

To defile; to disfigure. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate. I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. Walpole.

used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson.

A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.

See Dunderhead.

other; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

A bishopric; the office and dignity of a bishop.

Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.

alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit. He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic epistle. Mason. I exculpate him further for his writing against me. Milman.

oot; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

Feather-headed; frivolous. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.

Idle-headed; stupid. [Obs.]

To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [Obs.]

o impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt. That risk could only exculpate her and not inculpate them -- the probabilities protected them so perfectly. H. James.

A supposed salt of lampic acid. [Obs.]

To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.