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A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock. Is. ii. 21.

A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. [Obs.]

To play the thief; to steal. [Cant] But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. Marston.

A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.

To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] "The pot was crased." Chaucer.

To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

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

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.

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. Tennyson.

Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively. The snug, small room, and the crisp fire. Dickens.

The cracklling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth. A far cry, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.

A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber. Moxon.

To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.

The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.

nt (Testudinaria Elephantipes), which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also tortoise plant. The interior part is barely edible, whence the plant is also called Hottentot's bread. (b) A genus (Elephantopus) of coarse, composite weeds. -- Elephant's tusk (Zoöl.),…

to their quarters in case of fire. -- Fire setting (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. Raymond. -- Fire ship, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire…