Word Meanings - DECREPITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

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• CRACKLE
  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.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• CRACKLING
  Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting. (more info) 1. 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. 2. The well-browned,
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• DECREPITATE
  To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
• CRACKLEWARE
  See 3
• NOISELESS
  Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• ROAST
  To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores. 6. To banter severely. Atterbury. (more info) G. rösten, fr. OHG. rost, rosta, gridiron, G. rost; cf. AS. hyrstan 1. To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on
• ROASTER
  1. One who roasts meat. 2. A contrivance for roasting. 3. A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.
• NOISETTE
  A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
• DECREPITATION
  The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
• ROASTING
  a. & n., from Roast, v. Roasting ear, an ear of Indian corn at that stage of development when it is fit to be eaten roasted. -- Roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat is roasted.
• NOISE
  1. Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon. Note: Noise is either a sound of too short a duration to be determined, like the report of a cannon; or else it is a confused mixture of many
• CHINOISERIE
  Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
• ZOROASTRIANISM
  The religious system of Zoroaster, the legislator and prophet of the ancient Persians, which was the national faith of Persia; mazdeism. The system presupposes a good spirit and an opposing evil spirit . Cf. Fire worship, under Fire, and Parsee.
• OVERROAST
  To roast too much. Shak.
• OUTNOISE
  To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. Fuller.
• RIBROAST
  To beat soundly.
• OVERNOISE
  To overpower by noise.
• ZOROASTRISM
  See TYLOR