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

dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silent grave. Sir W. Raleigh.

A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. Sir W. Raleigh.

uty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. "Defection and falling away from God." Sir W. Raleigh. The general defection of the whole realm. Sir J. Davies.

of being delegated; deputed power. [Obs.] By way of delegacy or grand commission. Sir W. Raleigh.

opinion that Aram . . . was the father and denomination of the Syrians in general. Sir W. Raleigh.

To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Misfortune; mishap. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Not allowable; not to be suffered. Raleigh. -- Dis`al*low"a*ble*ness, n.

ry, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh.

that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

[Obs.] Those countries . . . under the tropic, were of a distemper uninhabitable. Sir W. Raleigh.

Immoderate. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

y, or in a small stream. The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. Sir W. Raleigh.

or warning. [Obs.] They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others. Sir W. Raleigh.

To last; to continue; to endure. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh. Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while. Matt. xiii. 21.

Not lasting. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. Sir W. Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. -- Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle.