adjective, -er, -est, verb, noun | 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. |
| 9. | to make or become crisp. |
| 10. | to curl. |
| 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. |

crisp (krĭsp) adj. crisp·er, crisp·est
v. tr. To make or keep crisp. v. intr. To become or remain crisp. n.
[Middle English, curly, from Old English, from Latin crispus; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.] crisp'ly adv., crisp'ness n. |
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
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