(verb) : crispo, no
* Perf., ātum, 1, and n. id..
* Act., to curl, crisp, crimp (poet. or in post-Aug. prose).
* Prop.: capillum,Plin. 29, 4, 26, § 82: feminae cincinnos, Maec. ap. Sen. Ep. 114, 5.
* Neutr., only in part. pres. crispans.
* To make variegated, rough, uneven; to cover or plant with something, to strew over: tellurem apio viridi,to border,Col. 10, 166: mixtum aurum cono,Stat. Th. 8, 568: alma novo crispans pelagus Tithonia Phoebo,Val. Fl. 1, 311; cf. Zumpt ad Rutil. 2, 13: quādam rugatione crispari corpora,Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 17.
* To put into a tremulous motion, to swing, brandish, wave (cf.: vibro, quasso): bina manu lato crispans hastilia ferro,Verg. A. 1, 313; 12, 165 (cf.: δύο δοῦρε τινάσσων, Il. 12, 298): non illis solitum crispare hastilia campo,Sil. 8, 374: tergeminos jactus,App. M. 11, p. 258, 35: buxum,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 110: clunes,Arn. 7, p. 239; cf. crispitudo.—Trop.: cachinnum,Sedul. 1, 316.
* Curled, uneven, wrinkled: buxus,Plin. 16, 16, 28, § 70: nasus,Pers. 3, 87.
* Trembling: cum vibrat crispante aedificiorum crepitu (of an earthquake),Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 198.

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