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The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6.

The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling. The crackle of fireworks. Carlyle.

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

The act of crepitating or crackling.

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

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.

To simmer; to boil. [Obs.] With crackling flames a caldron fries. Dryden The frothy billows fry. Spenser.

sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings. [Written also graves.]

t, or Owl parrot. (Zoöl.) See Kakapo. -- Parrot coal, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling and chattering sound it makes in burning. [Eng. & Scot.] -- Parrot green. (Chem.) See Scheele's green, under Green, n. -- Parrot weed (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant (Bocconia frutescens) of the Poppy family, native of th…

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