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"The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled."
],
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"(archaic) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled."
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"text": "crispation of the muscles",
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"text": "crispation of the stomach",
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"ref": "1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe",
"text": "Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.",
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"A slight twitch of a muscle."
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"(archaic) A slight twitch of a muscle."
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"(archaic) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled."
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