crisped, ppl. a.
(krɪspt, -pɪd)
[f. crisp v.]
1. Of hair: Closely and stiffly curled.
| c 1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 188 Þe mane of þat mayn hors..Wel cresped & cemmed. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 53 More blacke of skynne, more crispedde in heire. 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 92 Those crisped snakie golden locks. 1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose i. 137 Cupids yonkers with their crisped, powdred, and perfumed lockes. 1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 99 [Hair] sometimes straight and flowing, at others considerably curled and crisped. |
2. Having a surface curled into minute waves, folds or puckers.
| 1603 Dekker Grissil (Shaks. Soc.) 9 Canst drink the waters of the crisped spring? 1609 Bible (Douay) 1 Kings vii. 26 The leafe of a crisped lilie. 1665 Phil. Trans. I. 87 Having three Auricles or crisped Angles. 1818 Keats Endym. iv. 95 The wind that now did stir About the crisped oaks full drearily. 1849 Thoreau Week on Concord Monday 123 A million crisped waves come forth. |
b. Said of a crinkled margin.
| 1802 Beddoes Hygëia viii. 119 [The liver] has its edges crisped till they bend forwards. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 276 Orobanche rubra..lobes of lip toothed and crisped. 1870 Bentley Bot. 153 When the margin is very irregular, being twisted and curled, it is said to be crisped or curled. |
3. Made crisp or brittle; ‘short’ in texture; also in manner, style, etc.
| 1628 Feltham Resolves ii. xx, Hee that reades the Fathers shall finde them as if written with a crisped pen. 1769 Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 102 Garnish with crisped parsley and fried oysters. 1832 H. Martineau Each & All ii. 26 Young ash plantations, miles long, with their shoots crisped and black. |
¶ 4. Applied to trees: sense uncertain.
| 1634 Milton Comus 984 Along the crisped shades and bowers. 1648 Herrick Hesper., Cerem. Candlemas-Eve, The crisped yew. |