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To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. Seam blast, a blast by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks. -- Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace. -- Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows. (b) A tailor's sadiron for pre…

A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.

A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. Gwilt.

Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe.

Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt.

To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Also written sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.]

A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller.

To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] Dr. H. More.

To split; to crack. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. "She smacks the silken thong." Young.

To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip. MacMorian snapped his fingers repeatedly. Sir W. Scott.

A crack, or longitudinl fissure.

To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.

combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. Blackstone.

Having a delicately crackled surface; --applied to porcelian, etc.

A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.

The canopy of heaven; the sky. That heaven's vault should crack. Shak.

nown. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.