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crispation|krɪˈspeɪʃən|
[n. of action, f. L. crispāre to curl: see -ation.]
Curling, curled condition; formation of slight waves, folds, or crinkles; undulation.
1626Bacon Sylva §852 Some differ in the Haire..both in the Quantity, Crispation, and Colours of them. Ibid., Heat causeth Pilosity and Crispation. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xxvii. 64 Dismissing its wrinkled Crispations, and becoming very broad. 1714Derham Astro-Theol. v. ii. note, The motion of the air and vapours, makes a pretty crispation, and rouling. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (1855) I. 96 A difference in the degree of crispation, some European hair being also very crisp.
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.).
1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 150 Painful Crispations of the Fibres. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. II v. 134 She could not think of marrying him without a shudder, a crispation from head to foot. 1887O. W. Holmes in Atlantic Monthly July 118/1 Few can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.
c. Applied to the minute undulations on the surface of a liquid, produced by vibrations of the containing vessel, or by sound-waves.
1831Faraday Exp. Res. xlvi. 329 The well-known and peculiar crispations which form on water at the centres of vibration. 1891Century Mag. May 37 Upon singing..through the tube..beautiful crispations appear upon the surface of the liquid, which vary with every change of tone. |