crispt

Verb

crisp (third-person singular simple present crisps, present participle crisping, simple past and past participle crisped)

1. (transitive) To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
   • to crisp bacon by frying it

   Synonyms:

   crispen

2. (dated, figuratively, transitive) To add small amounts of colour to (something); to tinge, to tint.
   • It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,1876 December, Margaret Oliphant, “The Secret Chamber”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 120, page 718
3. (intransitive) To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
   • to put celery into ice water to crisp

   Synonyms:

   crispen

4. (dated, intransitive) To make a sharp crackling or crunching sound.
   • […] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.1860, Nikolai Gogol, “The Night of Christmas Eve: A Legend of Little Russia”, in George Tolstoy, transl., Cossack Tales, London: Blackwood, page 1

   Synonyms:

   crackle, creak, crunch, rustle

5. (dated, transitive) To curl (something, such as fabric) into tight, stiff folds or waves; to crimp, to crinkle; specifically, to form (hair) into tight curls or ringlets.
   • […] those crisped snaky golden locks / Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
6. (dated, figuratively, transitive) To cause (a body of water) to undulate irregularly; to ripple.
   • […] the crisped Brooks, / Rowling on Orient Pearl and sands of Gold1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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