adj

• Senses relating to curliness.
  "crisp hair"
• Senses relating to curliness.
  "[T]hree times did they drinke / Vpon agreement of ſvvift Seuerns floud, / VVho then affrighted vvith their bloudie lookes, / Ran fearefully among the trembling reedes, / And hid his criſpe-head in the hollovv banke, / Bloud-ſtained vvith theſe valiant combatants, […]"
• Senses relating to curliness.
  "Feathered VVater Moſs. Branched. Leaves criſp, feathered, undulated, pointing tvvo vvays."
• Senses relating to curliness.
  "One whyle hée at my necke dooth ſnatch / Another whyle my cléere criſp legges be ſtriueth for too catch, / Or trippes at mée: and euerywhere the vauntage he dooth watch."

noun

• Senses relating to something brittle.
  "Edward, give me another of those delicious olives. / What's that? Potato crisps? No, I can't endure them."
• Senses relating to something brittle.
  "kale crisps    prawn crisp"
• Senses relating to something brittle.
• Senses relating to something brittle.

verb

• Senses relating to brittleness.
  "to crisp bacon by frying it"
• Senses relating to brittleness.
  "It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,"
• Senses relating to brittleness.
  "to put celery into ice water to crisp"
• Senses relating to brittleness.
  "[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round."