a. [f. CRISP a. + -Y.]

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  1.  Curly, wavy; undulated; = CRISP a. 1 and 2.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xv. (1495), 121. By grete heete the heer of the berd and of the heed ben cryspy and curlyd.

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1594.  Kyd, Cornelia, IV. in Hazl., Dodsley, V. 229. Turn not thy crispy tides like silver curl, Back to thy grass-green banks to welcome us.

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1678.  Jordan, Triumphs Lond. A fair bright crispy curl’d flaxen hair.

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1819.  H. Busk, Banquet, III. 502. The Arctic frost That chains the crispy wave on Zemla’s coast.

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1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 381. Ye shall behold I doubt not soon, his crispy hair of gold.

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  2.  Brittle or ‘short’; = CRISP a. 5.

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1611.  Cotgr., Bressaudes, the crispie mammocks that remaine of tried hogs grese.

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c. 1720.  W. Gibson, Farriers Dispens., xv. (1734), 280. Boil … till … the Worms are grown crispy.

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1871.  Nichols, Fireside Science, 92. A black, crispy mass of charcoal.

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  3.  Pleasantly sharp, brisk; = CRISP a. 5 b.

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1841.  Fraser’s Mag., XXIII. 314. The crispy coolness of fair Eve.

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