Definition of Crackles

1. Noun. (plural of crackle) ¹

2. Noun. (medicine plurae tantum lung sounds) rales ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of crackle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crackles

1. crackle [v] - See also: crackle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crackles

crackhead
crackheads
crackhouse
crackhouses
crackier
crackiest
cracking
cracking a book
crackings
crackjaw
crackle
crackle china
crackleberries
crackleberry
crackled
crackles (current term)
crackleware
cracklewares
cracklier
crackliest
cracklike
crackling
crackling jaw
crackling rale
cracklingly
cracklings
cracklins
crackly
cracknel
cracknels

Literary usage of Crackles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"JAA Chapman on the crackles of the Subgenus Quiscalus.* — This interesting discussion of a highly perplexing subject — the relationships of our crackles ..."

2. Hard Paste Porcelain by Edwin Atlee Barber (1910)
"GROUP OF WHITE crackles (Central Vase 1o inches in height). ... GROUP OF COLORED crackles (Central Vase 6^4 inches in height). Vase to Left, Camellia Leaf ..."

3. Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"... as its leaf is in landscape, on handling, it feels as if it were fabricated with metallic rigour. In its autumnal state it almost crackles: . ..."

4. Hospital Days by Jane Stuart Woolsey (1870)
"THE store-room fire crackles and sparkles, catching at the little crisp scrolls of bark ori the edges of the birch logs and sending light, flashing flames ..."

5. A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism by Truman Joseph Spencer (1891)
"How the wood crackles and spurts as we bend to light our pipes. But Time has decreed that the log fire must be quenched, and Fashion demands that the circle ..."

6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"JAA Chapman on the crackles of the Subgenus Quiscalus.* — This interesting discussion of a highly perplexing subject — the relationships of our crackles ..."

7. Hard Paste Porcelain by Edwin Atlee Barber (1910)
"GROUP OF WHITE crackles (Central Vase 1o inches in height). ... GROUP OF COLORED crackles (Central Vase 6^4 inches in height). Vase to Left, Camellia Leaf ..."

8. Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"... as its leaf is in landscape, on handling, it feels as if it were fabricated with metallic rigour. In its autumnal state it almost crackles: . ..."

9. Hospital Days by Jane Stuart Woolsey (1870)
"THE store-room fire crackles and sparkles, catching at the little crisp scrolls of bark ori the edges of the birch logs and sending light, flashing flames ..."

10. A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism by Truman Joseph Spencer (1891)
"How the wood crackles and spurts as we bend to light our pipes. But Time has decreed that the log fire must be quenched, and Fashion demands that the circle ..."

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