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crizzle, v.|ˈkrɪz(ə)l|
Also 7 crisle, crizle, crizel, 8–9 crizzel, 9 crissel.
[Origin obscure: perh. dim. of craze v. Cf. F. crisser to crackle.]
1. intr. To become rough on the surface, as some kinds of stone or glass by scaling, or as water when it begins to freeze, etc.
1673Ray Journ. Low C. (1738) II. 462 Those stones will last well enough, till they shall be removed into a rougher [air]: But then they'll crizle and scale. 1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1136/4 Some of the..Flint Glasses..have been observed to crizel and decay. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Crizzelling, The glass thus made..is subject to crizzel. 1821Clare Addr. to Plenty (1821) 55 View the hole the boys have broke, Crizzling, still inclin'd to freeze. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Crizzle, to crisp; to grow hard and rough with heat or cold.
2. trans. To cause to ‘crizzle’; to roughen or crumple the surface of.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. ii. 26 White frost 'gins crizzle pond and brook. 1876Whitby Gloss., Crizzle, to broil. Crizzled, hardened or crisped as the land is in a droughty season. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Crisseled up, twisted up as leaves are by cold.
Hence ˈcrizzle n. (see quot.); ˈcrizzled ppl. a.; ˈcrizz(e)l(l)ing vbl. n.
1624Ford & Dekker Sun's Darling v. i, To feel the ice fall from my crisled skin. 1677R. Plot Oxfordshire ix. 253 The glasses made of these being subject to that..fault called Crizelling. 1876Whitby Gloss., Crizzles, the rough sunburnt places on the face and hands in scorching weather. 1937Burlington Mag. Nov. 217/1 The interior decay has taken the form of what in seventeenth-century England was called ‘crizzelling’. Ibid. 218/2 The bowl was..extensively crizzled. |