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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

encrisped en · ADJ

Etymology

From en- + crisp + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) curled or encrusted
    • Of laurell levis a cronell on his hede, With heris encrisped yalowe as the golde, Lamentyng Daphnes, […] 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:
    • Where the lank boar is seen to yawn / His hungered fangs encrisped with gore. 1857, T Irwin, Goethe’s Death: