crisp

to crisp bacon by frying it

to put celery into ice water to crisp

[…] those crisped snaky golden locks

Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,

The Sauoie Lettuce hath very large leaues ſpread vpon the grounde, at the firſt comming vp broade, cut, or gaſht about the edges, criſping or curling lightly this or that way, not vnlike to the leaues of garden Endiue, […]

[…] the crisped Brooks,

Rowling on Orient Pearl and sands of Gold

Hitherto we haue sayled with a fore-wind, & our sliding ship hath plowed vp the crisping waues of the Sea at ease.

[…] he consider’d what an infinity of Muscles these laughing Rascals threw into a convulsive motion at the same time; whether we regard the spasms of the Diaphragm and all the muscles of respiration, the horrible rictus of the mouth, the distortion of the lower jaw, the crisping of the nose, twinkling of the eyes, or sphaerical convexity of the cheeks, with the tremulous succussion of the whole human body:

[…] she gave no sign of the wave of repugnance that swept over her except that her fingers suddenly crisped.

[…] the hot pavement by the playing field where the trees crisp together.

[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.

It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,