Crinoidal

Po e ing, or consisting of, Crinoids. Crinoid'ea, or Crinoideæ, n. pl. [Fr. crinoide.] ( Pal.) The name given by Miller to an extensive order of fo il animals, belonging to the cla Echinoderm at a, and so named from their lily-like appearance. The principal families are described under the head of ENCRINITE. Crinoid'ean, n. One of the Crinoidea. Crinoline, ( krin'o -lin,) n. [Fr., from crin, horse-hair; Lat. crinis, hair, and lin, flax; Lat. crinum.) ( Manuf.) A texture, of which the warp is of flax, and the woof -v. n. To construct curly sinuosities on the border of -Having a certain quality of spirit and vigor; as, the crisp tone of a violin. - Effervescing; full of spirit and liveline ; - used in relation to liquors. -v. a. [Lat. crispo, from crisp us; A. S. cirpsian.] To contract or form into ringlets or curls, as the hair. "A man with crisped hair."- Ben Jonson. -To make undulating or wavy; to give a twisted appear. ance to; as, " crisped brooks." - Milton. anything; as, a " crisping ripple." - Tennyson. Cris'pate, Cris'pated, a. [Lat. crisp at us .] Presenting a crisped aspect.