Crispation. World English Historical Dictionary

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[n. of action, f. L. crispāre to curl: see -ATION.] Curling, curled condition; formation of slight waves, folds or crinkles; undulation.

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1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 852. Some differ in the Haire … both in the Quantity, Crispation, and Colours of them. Ibid. Heat causeth Pilosity and Crispation.

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1668.  Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., I. xxvii. 64. Dismissing its wrinkled Crispations, and becoming very broad.

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1714.  Derham, Astro-Theol., V. ii. note. The motion of the air and vapours, makes a pretty crispation, and rouling.

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1842.  Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man (1855), I. 96. A difference in the degree of crispation, some European hair being also very crisp.

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  b.  ‘A slight contraction of any part, morbid or natural, as that of the minute arteries in a wound when they retract, or of the skin in the state called goose-skin’ (Mayne, Expos. Lex.).

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1710.  T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 150. Painful Crispations of the Fibres.

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1871.  M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., II. v. 134. She could not think of marrying him without a shudder, a crispation from head to foot.

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1887.  O. W. Holmes, in Atlantic Monthly, July, 118/1. Few can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.

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  c.  Applied to the minute undulations on the surface of a liquid, produced by vibrations of the containing vessel, or by sound-waves.

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1831.  Faraday, Exp. Res., xlvi. 329. The well-known and peculiar crispations which form on water at the centres of vibration.

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1891.  Margaret Watts Hughes, in Century Mag., May, 37/2. Upon singing notes of suitable pitch through the tube, not too forcibly, beautiful crispations appear upon the surface of the liquid, which vary with every change of tone.

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