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▪ I. crisping, vbl. n.|ˈkrɪspɪŋ|
[f. crisp v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb to crisp; curling.
1400–1568 [see b.]. 1669E. Montague Art of Mettals ii. xix. (1674) 67 That some little hairyness, or crisping encompasseth the Pellets of Quicksilver. 1683(title), England's Vanity..wherein Naked Breasts and Shoulders..Long Perriwigs..Curlings, and Crispings, are condemned.
b. Comb., as in crisping-crook, crisping-iron, crisping-pin, crisping-tongs, instruments for crisping or curling the hair, etc.
a1400Morte Arthur 3353 The krispane kroke to my crownne raughte. 1483Cath. Angl. 83 A Cryspyngeyren, acus. 1568Bible (Bishops') Isa. iii. 20 The wimples, and the crisping pinnes. c1618Fletcher Q. Corinth iv. i, Never powder, nor the crisping-iron, Shall touch these dangling locks. 1637J. Pocklington Altare Chr. 42 Fetch me my Crisping pinnes to curle my lockes. 1772Ann. Reg. 220 Cease, with crisping tongs, to tare And torture thus thy flowing hair. 1874[see crisper].
▪ II. ˈcrisping, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That crisps. trans. and intr.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 471 This curious cripsing and blazing bravery of hawtye speech. 1778Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 374 The crisping and drying quality of E., N., and N.E. winds. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. App. 389 The small crisping waves which break upon the shore. |