Meanings
adjectiveencrisped (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletecurled or encrusted
Where the lank boar is seen to yawn / His hungered fangs encrisped with gore.
1857, T Irwin, Goethe’s Death1 more example
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
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