Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 149

Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Crimp (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.

Crimp (n.) A game at cards. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.

Boot crimp. See under Boot.

Crimp (n.) An angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" [syn: fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend].

Crimp (n.) Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers [syn: crimp, crimper].

Crimp (n.) A lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled.

Crimp (v.) Make ridges into by pinching together [syn: crimp, pinch].

Crimp (v.) Curl tightly; "crimp hair" [syn: crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink].

Crimpage (n.) The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

Crimper (n.) One who, or that which, crimps; as:

Crimper (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.

Crimper (n.) A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.

Crimper (n.) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.

Crimper (n.) Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers [syn: crimp, crimper].

Crimper (n.) A mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight" [syn: curler, hair curler, roller, crimper].

Crimpled (imp. & p. p.) of Crimple.

Crimpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimple.

Crimple (v. t.) To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl. [R.] -- Wiseman.

Crimpy (a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

Crimson (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. -- Is. i. 18.

A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. -- Shak. 

Crimson (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. "A crimson tide." -- Mrs. Hemans.

The blushing poppy with a crimson hue. -- Prior.

Crimsoned (imp. & p. p.) of Crimson.

Crimsoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimson.

Crimson (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. -- Shak.

Crimson (v. t.) To become crimson; to blush.

Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. -- De Quincey.

Crimson (a.) Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet].

Crimson (a.) Characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's  crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, red, violent].

Crimson (a.) (Especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red- faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" [syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed].

Crimson (n.) A deep and vivid red color [syn: crimson, ruby, deep red].

Crimson (v.) Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: blush, crimson, flush, redden].

Crimson See Colour.

Crinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the hair. [R.] -- Blount.

Crinated (a.) Having hair; hairy.

Crinatory (a.) Crinitory. -- Craig.

Crincum (n.) A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey. [Colloq.] -- Hudibras.

Crincum-crancum (n.) A twist; a whimsey or whim. [Colloq.]

Crined (a.) (Her.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.

Crinel (n.) Alt. of Crinet.

Crinet (n.) A very fine, hairlike feather. -- Booth.

Crnged (imp. & p. p.) of Cringe.

Cringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cringe.

Cringe (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. -- Bunyan.

Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch? -- Milton.

Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing. -- Arbuthnot.

Cringe (v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. [Obs.]

Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy. -- Shak.

Cringe (n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility. "With cringe and shrug, and bow obsequious." -- Cowper.

Cringe (v.) Draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail].

Cringe (v.) Show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel].

Cringe (v.) [ I ]（因恐懼）畏縮，退縮 To suddenly move away from someone or something because you are frightened.

Cringe (v.) [ I ] (Informal) 感到難堪，覺得難爲情 To feel very embarrassed.

// I cringed at the sight of my dad dancing.

Cringeling (n.) One who cringes meanly; a fawner.

Cringer (n.) One who cringes.

Cringingly (adv.) 畏縮地；卑屈地 In a cringing manner.

Cringle (n.) A withe for fastening a gate.

Cringle (n.) (Naut.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.

Cringle (n.) Fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines [syn: cringle, eyelet, loop, grommet, grummet].

Crinicultural (a.) Relating to the growth of hair. [R.]

Crinigerous (a.) Bearing hair; hairy. [R.]

Crinital (a.) Same as Crinite, 1.

He the star crinital adoreth. -- Stanyhurst.
Crinite (a.) Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. "Comate, crinite, caudate stars." -- Fairfax.

Crinite (a.) (Bot.) Bearded or tufted with hairs. -- Gray.

Crinitory (a.) Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering. -- T. Hook.

Crinkle (n.) A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.

The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. -- A. Tucker.

Crinkled (imp. & p. p.) of Crinkle.

Crinkling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crinkle.

Crinkle (v. t.) To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

The house?s crinkled to and fro. -- Chaucer.

Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. -- Skelton.

The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. -- Mrs. Browning.

Crinkle (v. i.) To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.

The green wheat crinkles like a lake. -- L. T. Trowbridge.

And all the rooms Were full of crinkling silks. -- Mrs. Browning.

Crinkle (n.) A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line].

Crinkle (v.) Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp].

Crinkle (v.) Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle].

Crinkled (a.) Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." -- Lowell. crinkle root.

Crinkled (a.) Uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves [syn: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy, wavelike].

Crinkly (a.) Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.

Crinkly (a.) Uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves [syn: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy, wavelike].

Crinoid (a.) (Zool.) Crinoidal.

Crinoid (n.) One of the Crinoidea.

Crinoid (a.) Of or relating to or belonging to the class Crinoidea

Crinoid (n.) Primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk.

Crinoidal (a.) (Zool.) Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids.

Crinoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula.

Crinoidea (n.) Sea lilies [syn: Crinoidea, class Crinoidea].

Crinoidean (n.) (Zool) One of the Crinoidea.

Crinoline (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

Crinoline (n.) A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.

Crinoline (n.) A skirt stiffened with hoops [syn: hoopskirt, crinoline].

Crinoline (n.) A full stiff petticoat made of crinoline fabric.

Crinoline (n.) A stiff coarse fabric used to stiffen hats or clothing.

Crinose (a.) Hairy. [R.]

Crinosity (n.) Hairiness. [R.]

Crinum (n.) (Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace[ae], cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.

Criosphinx (n.) A sphinx with the head of a ram.

Cripple (n.) One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. -- Dryden.

Cripple (n.) [Local. U. S.] Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.

The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the

stream ordinarily come and go. -- Pennsylvania Law Reports.

Cripple (n.) [Local. U. S.] A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.

Cripple (a.) Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." -- Shak.

Crippled (imp. & p. p.) of Cripple.

Crippling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cripple.

Cripple (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.

He had crippled the joints of the noble child. -- Sir W. Scott.

Cripple (v. t.) To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.

More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. -- Palfrey.

An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. -- Macaulay.

Cripple (n.) Someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back.

Cripple (v.) Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple, stultify].

Cripple (v.) Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [syn: cripple, lame].

Crippled (a.) Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." -- Longfellow.

Crippled (a.) Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game].

Crippleness (n.) Lameness. [R.] -- Johnson.

Crippler (n.) A wooden tool used in graining leather. -- Knight.

Crippling (n.) Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Crippling (a.) That cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury" [syn: crippling, disabling, incapacitating].

Cripply (a.) Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] -- Mrs. Trollope.

Crises (n. pl. ) of Crisis.

Crisis (n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.

This hour's the very crisis of your fate. -- Dryden.

The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. -- Brougham.

Crisis (n.) (Med.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.

Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. -- Dryden.

Crisis (n.) An unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis."

Crisis (n.) A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better."

Crisp (a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

Crisp (a.) Curled with the ripple of the water. [Poetic]

You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. -- Shak.

Crisp (a.) Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.

The cakes at tea ate short and crisp. -- Goldsmith.

Crisp (a.) Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.

It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. -- Leigh Hunt.

Crisp (a.) Lively; sparking; effervescing.

Your neat crisp claret. -- Beau. & Fl.

Crisp (a.) Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.

The snug, small room, and the crisp fire. -- Dickens.

Crisp (v. i.) To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.

To watch the crisping ripples on the beach. -- Tennuson.

Crisp (n.) That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling. Crispate

Crisped (imp. & p. p.) of Crisp.

Crisping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crisp.

Crisp (v. t.) To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

Crisp (v. t.) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.

The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. -- Drayton.

Along the crisped shades and bowers. -- Milton.

The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. -- Milton.

Crisp (v. t.) To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.

Crisping iron, An instrument by which hair or any textile fabric is crisped.

Crisping pin, The simplest form of crisping iron. -- Is. iii. 22.

Crisp (a.) (Of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot" [syn: crisp, sharp].

Crisp (a.) Tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips" [syn: crisp, crispy].

Crisp (a.) Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy].

Crisp (a.) Pleasingly firm and fresh; "crisp lettuce."

Crisp (a.) (Of hair) In small tight curls [syn: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy].

Crisp (a.) Brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand" [syn: crisp, curt, laconic, terse].

Crisp (n.) A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat [syn: chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip].

Crisp (v.) Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane" [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp].

Crisp (v.) Make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes" [syn: crispen, toast, crisp].

CRISP, () Complex-Reduced Instruction Set Processor.

CRISP, () Cross Registry Internet Service Protocol (Internet, RFC 3707).

CRISP, () A Lisp-like language and compiler for the IBM 370 written by Jeff Barnett of SDC, Santa Monica, CA, USA in the early 1970s.  It generalised Lisp's two-part cons nodes to n-part nodes.

(1994-11-10)

Crisp, () (Or "discrete") The opposite of "{fuzzy".

(1994-12-23)

Crisp -- U.S. County in Georgia

Population (2000): 21996

Housing Units (2000): 9559

Land area (2000): 273.818336 sq. miles (709.186204 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 7.378025 sq. miles (19.108995 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 281.196361 sq. miles (728.295199 sq. km)

Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13

Location: 31.935851 N, 83.767514 W

Headwords:

Crisp

Crisp, GA

Crisp County

Crisp County, GA

Crispate (a.) Alt. of Crispated.

Crispated (a.) Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

Crispate (a.) Wavy or notched and curled very irregularly.

Crispation (n.) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. -- Bacon.

Crispation (n.) A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.

Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. -- O. W. Holmes.

Crispature (n.) The state of being crispate.

Crisper (n.) One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

Crispin (n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.

Crispin (n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers.

Crispin (n.) Patron saint of shoemakers; he and his brother were martyred for trying to spread Christianity (3rd century) [syn: Crispin, Saint Crispin, St. Crispin].

Crisply (adv.) In a crisp manner.

Crisply (adv.) In a well delineated manner; "the new style of Minoan pottery was sharply defined" [syn: sharply, crisply].

Crispness (n.) The state or quality of being crisp.

Crispness (n.) A pleasing firmness and freshness; "crispness of new dollar bills"; "crispness of fresh lettuce."

Crispness (n.) An expressive style that is direct and to the point; "the crispness of his reply."

Crispness (n.) Firm but easily broken [syn: brittleness, crispness, crispiness].

Crispy (a.) Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

Crispy (a.) Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.

Crispy (a.) Tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips" [syn: crisp, crispy].

Crissal (a.) (Zool.) 肛周的；圍肛羽的 Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.

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