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Clatter; confused noise. Swift.

A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion. [Obs.] Shak.

One that commingles; specif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles.

te; as, to convey an impression; to convey information. Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts. Locke.

To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.] Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).

little powder inclossed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - - often called firecracker.

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.] He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.

The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch. Swift.

The noise produced bu a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.

The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] Johnson.

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

To chew with force and noise; to craunch. And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter skull. Byron.

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.

Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden.

To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]

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.

Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. [Obs.] "Dernful noise." Spenser.