encrisped

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English

Etymology

From en- +‎ crisp +‎ -ed.

Adjective

encrisped (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) curled
    • 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 320, lines 288–290:
      Of laurell levis a cronell on his hede,
      With heris encrisped yalowe as the golde,
      Lamentyng Daphnes, […]
  2. (obsolete) encrusted
    • 1857, T Irwin, Goethe’s Death:
      Where the lank boar is seen to yawn / His hungered fangs encrisped with gore.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “encrisped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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