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imp. & p. p. of Speed.

A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.

Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

Curled. [Obs.] Skelton.

Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.] Swift.

Not performed; not dispatched. [Obs.] Garth.

Having good success.

Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. Skelton.

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

to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. Drayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. [Written also frizz.] He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts. Hare.

A curl; a lock of hair crisped. Milton.

Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.

The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant. Knight.

decline; to decease; to die. By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. Sir W. Scott.

grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive. As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued. Shak. To grasp at, to catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander grasped at universal empire,