Word Meanings - DECREPITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• 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
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• CALCINE
  Etym: 1. To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones. 2. To oxidize, as a metal
• 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,
• CALCINER
  One who, or that which, calcines.
• CRACKLEWARE
  See 3
• DECREPITATE
  To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
• 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.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• 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
• CAUSE
  A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action. 5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give
• 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.
• 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.
• CAUSEWAY; CAUSEY
  A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton. (more
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• 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.