Curled; formed into curls or ringlets.

Indented; winding; as crisp channels.

Brittle; friable; easily broken or crumbled.

To curl; to twist; to contract or form into ringlets, as the hair; to wreathe or interweave, as the branches of trees.

To indent. To twist or eddy. But the sense is, to curl; to wrinkle in little undulations, as a fretted surface. From that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, ran nectar, visiting each plant.