crispest

Adjective

crisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)

1. (dated) Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also (obsolete), of a person: having hair curled in this manner.
   • crisp hair
2. (archaic, obsolete) Of a body of water, skin, etc.: having a surface which is rippled or wrinkled.
   • [T]hree times did they drinke / Vpon agreement of ſvvift Seuerns floud, / VVho then affrighted vvith their bloudie lookes, / Ran fearefully among the trembling reedes, / And hid his criſpe-head in the hollovv banke, / Bloud-ſtained vvith theſe valiant combatants, […]c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]...
3. (archaic) Synonym of crispate (“of a leaf: having curled, notched, or wavy edges”); crisped.
   • Feathered VVater Moſs. Branched. Leaves criſp, feathered, undulated, pointing tvvo vvays.1770, John Berkenhout, “Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. […] II. Musci, Mosses.”, in Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland. […], volume II (Comprehending the Vegetable Kingdom)...

   Synonyms:

   crispate

4. (obsolete, uncertain) Clear; also, shining, or smooth.
   • One whyle hée at my necke dooth ſnatch / Another whyle my cléere criſp legges be ſtriueth for too catch, / Or trippes at mée: and euerywhere the vauntage he dooth watch.1567, Ovid, “The Ninth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 111, recto
5. Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
   • The crisp snow crunched underfoot.
6. (figuratively) Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
   • And this piece of laurel is from Vaucluse! […] What an exquisite dry old, vital, young-looking, everlasting twig it is! It has been plucked nine months, and looks as hale and as crisp as if it would last ninety years.1820 July 12, Leigh Hunt, “On Receiving a Sprig of Laurel from Vaucluse”, in The Indicator, volume I, number XL, London: […] Joseph Appleyard, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 316

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