Crispo, crispas, crispâre. Plin. To cutle or brayde: to make to shine or glitter. Crispari terra herbis dicitur. per translationem. Colum. Aurora crispat pelagus nouo Phœbo.Val. Flac.The morning with the sunne beames maketh the sea to glitter.Mistum cono crispauerat autum Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
crispo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [id.]. I.Act., to curl, crisp, crimp (poet. or in post-Aug. prose). A. Prop.: capillum, Plin. 29, 4, 26, 82: feminae cincinnos, Maec. ap. Sen. Ep. 114, 5.—B.Transf.1.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.—2.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.: du/o dou=re tina/sswn, 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.—II.Neutr., only in part. pres. crispans. A.Curled, uneven, wrinkled: buxus, Plin. 16, 16, 28, 70: nasus, Pers. 3, 87.—B.Trembling: cum vibrat crispante aedificiorum crepitu (of an earthquake), Plin. 2, 82, 84, 198.