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 ]

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. [ 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]