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Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

es, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

The state of being crispate.

One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.

In a crisp manner.

The state or quality of being crisp.

Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

Curled. [Obs.] Skelton.

Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant.

A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled. Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. W. Irving. Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison.

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.

A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork. For the first time in his life he tested crackling. Lamb.

e Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. -- Oriental crape. See Canton crape.

ed; to give a wavy apperance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp. The comely hostess in a crimped cap. W. Irving.

A brittle cake or other crisp pastry.

A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat. [Also written kruller.]