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biting, bracing, brisk, brittle, chilly, clear, cold, concise, cutting, firm, fresh, friable

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crisp

[krisp]

adjective, -er, -est, verb, noun

–adjective

1.	(esp. of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast.

2.	(esp. of food) firm and fresh; not soft or wilted: a crisp leaf of lettuce.

3.	brisk; sharp; clear; decided: a crisp reply.

4.	lively; pithy; sparkling: crisp repartee.

5.	clean-cut, neat, and well-pressed; well-groomed.

6.	bracing; invigorating: crisp air.

7.	crinkled, wrinkled, or rippled, as skin or water.

8.	in small, stiff, or firm curls; curly.

–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

9.	to make or become crisp.

10.

to curl.

–noun

11.	Chiefly British. potato chip.

12.	a dessert of fruit, as apples or apricots, baked with a crunchy mixture, usually of bread crumbs, chopped nutmeats, butter, and brown sugar.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE < L crispus curled

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Language Translation for : Crisp

Spanish:

crujiente, quebradizo,

German:

knusprig,

Japanese:

かりかりに焼けた

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crisp (krĭsp) Pronunciation Key
adj. crisp·er, crisp·est

Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle: crisp potato chips.
Pleasingly firm and fresh: crisp carrot and celery sticks.
1. Bracing; invigorating: crisp mountain air.
2. Lively; sprightly: music with a crisp rhythm.
Conspicuously clean or new: a crisp dollar bill.
Marked by clarity, conciseness, and briskness: a crisp reply. See Synonyms at incisive.
Having small curls, waves, or ripples.

v.   crisped, crisp·ing, crisps

v.   tr.
To make or keep crisp.
v.   intr.
To become or remain crisp.
n.

Something crisp or easily crumbled: The roast was burned to a crisp.
A dessert of fruit baked with a sweet crumbly topping: apple crisp.
Chiefly British A potato chip.

[Middle English, curly, from Old English, from Latin crispus; see sker-² in Indo-European roots.]
crisp'ly adv., crisp'ness n.

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crisp

O.E. crisp "curly," from L. crispus "curled." It began to mean "brittle" 1530, for obscure reasons. Figurative sense of "neat, brisk" is from 1814. Potato crisps (the British version of U.S. potato chips) is from 1929.

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crisp
adjective
1.	(of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"
2.	tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips"
3.	pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"
4.	pleasingly firm and fresh; "crisp lettuce"
5.	(of hair) in small tight curls
6.	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"
noun
1.	a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat [syn: chip]
verb
1.	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]
2.	make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes" [syn: crispen]

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crisp

see burn to a cinder (crisp).

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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.
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crisp
(Or "discrete") The opposite of "fuzzy".
(1994-12-23)

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Crisp, GA (County, FIPS 081)
Location: (31.935851, -83.767514)
Population (2000): 21,996 (9,559 housing units)
Area: 273.818336 sq mi (land), 7.378025 sq mi (water)

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Crisp

Crisp\ (kr?sp), a. [AS. crisp, fr. L. crispus; cf. carpere to pluck, card (wool), and E. harvest. Cf. Crape.]

1. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

2. Curled with the ripple of the water. [Poetic]

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. Lively; sparking; effervescing.

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

6. Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.

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

Crisp

Crisp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crisped (kr?spt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crisping.] [L. crispare, fr. crispus. See Crisp. a. ]

1. To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

2. 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.

3. 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

Crisp\, v. i. To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.

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

Crisp

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.

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