*crep*

‖[ F. ] n. 1. Same as Crape. [ Also spelled crepe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any of various crapelike fabrics, whether crinkled or not.

3. A small thin pancake. [ wns16=2 ] [ PJC ]

4. Paper with a finely crinkle texture, usually sold in rolls of 2-3 inches width; crepe paper; -- it is usually colored brightly and used for decoration. [ wns16=1 ] [ PJC ]

Crêpe de Chine n. [ F. de Chine of China ], Canton crape or an inferior gauzy fabric resembling it. [ Also spelled crepe de Chine. ] --
Crêpe lisse ety>[ F. lisse smooth ], smooth, or unwrinkled, crape{ 2 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖def>Paper with a finely crinkle texture, usually sold in rolls of 2-3 inches width; crepe paper; -- it is usually colored brightly and used for decoration. Same as crepe{ 4 }. [ PJC ]

pl. or . [ F. ] n. A rolled or folded crepe{ 3 }, heated in an orange-flavored liqueur (or in a hot orange-butter sauce and moistened with a liqueur) and set on fire when served. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A genus of plants including the hawk's beard; cosmopolitan in the northern hemisphere.
Syn. -- genus Crepis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Crepitate. ] Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crepitated p. pr. & vb. n. Crepitating ] [ L. crepitatus, p. p. of crepitare to crackle, v. intensive of crepare to crack. Cf. Crevice. ] To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. crépitation. ] 1. The act of crepitating or crackling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air. (b) A crepitant râle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. crepare to crack. ] (Med.) (a) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels. (b) Same as Crepitation, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Creep. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. crepusculum, fr. creper dusky, dark: cf. F. crépuscule. ] Twilight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crepuscular. [ Obs. ] Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. crépusculaire. ] 1. Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. [ 1913 Webster ]

This semihistorical and crepuscular period. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. decrepitus, perhaps orig., noised out, noiseless, applied to old people, who creep about quietly; de- + crepare to make a noise, rattle: cf. F. décrépit. See Crepitate. ] Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. “Beggary or decrepit age.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Already decrepit with premature old age. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Decrepitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decrepitating. ] [ Cf. F. décrépiter. ] To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To crackle, as salt in roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décrépitation. ] The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Decrepitude. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décrépitude. ] The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. -ances -ancies [ L. disrepantia: cf. OF. discrepance. See Discrepant. ] The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. [ 1913 Webster ]

There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. discrepans, -antis, p. pr. of discrepare to sound differently or discordantly; dis- + crepare to rattle, creak: cf. OF. discrepant. See Crepitate. ] Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Egyptians were . . . the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dissident. J. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Hippocrepiform. ] (Zool.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolæma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. "i`ppos horse + &unr_; shoe + -form.] (Bot.) Shaped like a horseshoe. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ L. increpatus, p. p. of increpare to upbraid; pref. in- in, against + crepare to talk noisily. ] To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]