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  • English Word Crippleness Definition Lameness.
  • English Word Crippler Definition A wooden tool used in graining leather.
  • English Word Crippling Definition of Cripple
  • English Word Crippling Definition Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
  • English Word Cripply Definition Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition.
  • English Word Crises Definition of Crisis
  • English Word Crisis Definition 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.
  • English Word Crisis Definition 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.
  • English Word Crisp Definition Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.
  • English Word Crisp Definition Curled with the ripple of the water.
  • English Word Crisp Definition Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.
  • English Word Crisp Definition Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
  • English Word Crisp Definition Lively; sparking; effervescing.
  • English Word Crisp Definition Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
  • English Word Crisp Definition To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.
  • English Word Crisp Definition To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.
  • English Word Crisp Definition To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.
  • English Word Crisp Definition To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.
  • English Word Crisp Definition 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.
  • English Word Crispate Definition Alt. of Crispated
  • English Word Crispated Definition Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.
  • English Word Crispation Definition The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
  • English Word Crispation Definition A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.
  • English Word Crispature Definition The state of being crispate.
  • English Word Crisped Definition of Crisp
  • English Word Crisper Definition One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
  • English Word Crispin Definition A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.
  • English Word Crispin Definition A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
  • English Word Crisping Definition of Crisp
  • English Word Crisply Definition In a crisp manner.