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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
CRIMP, a. [See Crumble.]
CRIMP, v.t. To catch; to seize; to pinch and hold. [See Crimple.]
CRIMP, v.t. To curl or frizzle; as, to crimp the hair. This is evidently the same word as the foregoing.
CRIMP, n.
1913 Definition
To fold or plait in regular undulation in
such a way that the material will retain the shape intended] to
give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a
cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
The comely hostess in a crimped cap. To pinch and hold; to seize.
to entrap into the military or
naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp
him. To cause to contract,
or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it,
when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate,
etc.
Crimping house, a low lodging house,
into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them
to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. --
Crimping iron. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
[R.]
Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp
earth. Weak; inconsistent;
contradictory.
[R.]
The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear
backward and forward, and contradict themselves. A
coal broker.
[Prov. Eng.] De Foe. One who decoys or entraps men into the
military or naval service.
Marryat. A keeper of a low lodging house where
sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Hair which has been crimped; --
usually in pl.
A game at cards.
[Obs.] B.
Jonson.
Boot crimp. See under Boot. In
cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as
to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.
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