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A snatching away. [Obs.]

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

The act of taking away. [Obs.] "This arreption was sudden." Bp. Hall.

tched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.

Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificial pupil. -- Cor`e*plas"tic (-plas"tik), a.

Chiding; reproof; reproach. [Obs.] Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend. Hammond.

To counterplead. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.

Same as Crape.

Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.

To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.

The act of crepitating or crackling.

Same as Crepitation, 2.

A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.

imp. & p. p. of Creep.

Twilight. Bailey.