crisp

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle: crisp potato chips.
2. adj. Pleasingly firm and fresh: crisp carrot and celery sticks.
3. adj. Bracing; invigorating: crisp mountain air.
4. adj. Lively; sprightly: music with a crisp rhythm.
5. adj. Conspicuously clean or new: a crisp dollar bill.
6. adj. Marked by clarity, conciseness, and briskness: a crisp reply. See Synonyms at incisive.
7. adj. Having small curls, waves, or ripples.
8. v. To make or keep crisp.
9. v. To become or remain crisp.
10. n. Something crisp or easily crumbled: The roast was burned to a crisp.
11. n. A dessert of fruit baked with a sweet crumbly topping: apple crisp.
12. n. Chiefly British A potato chip.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Curled; crimpled; crimped; wrinkled; wavy; especially (of the hair), curling in small stiff or firm curls.
2. In botany, curled and twisted: applied to a leaf when the border is much more dilated than the disk.
3. Twisted; twisting; winding.
4. Brittle; friable; breaking or crumbling into fragments of somewhat firm consistence.
5. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and vigor; fresh; having a fresh appearance.
6. Brisk; lively.
7. Having a sharp, pleasantly acrid taste.
8. Lively in expression; pithy; terse; sparkling.
9. In entomology, same as crispate.
10. n. A material formerly used for veils, probably similar to crape; a veil.
11. n. Same as crespine. Planché.
12. To curl; twist; contract or form into waves or ringlets, as the hair; wreathe or interweave, as the branches of trees.
13. To wrinkle or curl into little undulations; crimp; ripple; corrugate; pucker: as, to crisp cloth.
14. To form little curls or undulations; curl.
15. To become friable; crackle.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Sharp, clearly defined.
2. adj. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.
3. adj. Curled with a ripple of water.
4. adj. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.
5. adj. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
6. adj. Of weather, air etc.: dry and cold.
7. adj. of movement, etc. Quick and accurate.
8. adj. text, etc. Brief and to the point. (Esp. in make it crisp.)
9. adj. Lively; sparking; effervescing.
10. adj. Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
11. adj. Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
12. n. UK A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
13. v. transitive To make crisp.
14. v. intransitive To become crisp.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
2. adj. Poetic Curled with the ripple of the water.
3. adj. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
4. adj. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
5. adj. Lively; sparking; effervescing.
6. adj. Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
7. v. To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.
8. v. To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.
9. v. To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.
10. v. To undulate or ripple. Cf. crisp, v. t.
11. n. That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; ; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
2. n. a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
3. adj. (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
4. adj. pleasingly firm and fresh
5. adj. brief and to the point; effectively cut short
6. adj. pleasantly cold and invigorating
7. adj. (of hair) in small tight curls
8. adj. tender and brittle
9. v. make brown and crisp by heating