crisp (krisp)

[ 1354 critic The blue-eyed Gauls, And crisped Germans. B. Jonson , Sejanus, iii. 1. The crisped shades and bowers. Milton , Comus, 1. 984. 2. To wrinkle or curl into little undulations; crimp; ripple; corrugate; pucker: as, to crisp cloth. From that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, Ran nectar, visiting each plant. Milton , P. L., iv. 237. II. in trans. 1. To form little curls or undulations; curl. The babbling runnel crispeth . Tennyson, Claribel. Dry leaf and snow-rime crisped beneath his foremost tread. Whittier , Bridal of Penna cook, iii. 2. To become friable; crackle. children, in which two players set down alter- Chaucer . nately, in a series of squares, the one a cro , cristendomt, n. The older form of Christen dom . the other a cipher. The object of the game is to get three of the same characters in a row. Also called tit - tat - to. [U. S.] II. a . Like a cro or a series of cro es; cro ed and recro ed; going back and forth. The poem is all zigzag, cri -cro , at odds and ends. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 304. cri cro (kris'krôs), v. i. [ cri cro ing . C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 19. The sky is cobwebbed with the cri - cro ing red lines streaming from soaring bombshells. S. L. Clemens , Life on the Mi i ippi, p. 376. cristiform (kris'ti-form), a. [L. crista, a crest (see crest ), + form a, form.] Having the form of a crest; shaped like a crest. Also crest i form. cris tim a no us (kris-tim'a-nus), a. [L. crista, a crest (see crest), + manus, hand.] Having crested claws: specifically said of such crabs as the calappids, formerly put in a section Cristimani.