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ake 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.

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope.

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

to traverse; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. I. Watts.

A bracket. See Bracket.

-- Crow blackbird (Zoöl.), an American bird (Quiscalus quiscula); -- called also purple grackle. -- Crow pheasant (Zoöl.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives to give omens. See Coucal. -- Crow shrike (Zoöl.), any bird of the genera Gymnorhina, Craticus, or Strepera, mostly from Austra…

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.

s. See under Between. -- Deck bridge (Railroad Engineering), a bridge which carries the track upon the upper chords; -- distinguished from a through bridge, which carries the track upon the lower chords, between the girders. -- Deck curb (Arch.), a curb supporting a deck in roof construction. -- Deck floor (Arch.),…

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.

diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.

nd hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.

imbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving. Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame Prior.

To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. Pope. Your sins will dog you, pursue you. Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the…

horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing. [Race-track Slang]