It was the private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of secresy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest.
Crepitus. A crackling or crunching sound heard when the ends of a fractured piece of bone rub against each other. Mentioned in: Gangrene, Nasal Trauma.
1. (Physical Geography) a loud cracking or deep rumbling noise caused by the rapid expansion of atmospheric gases which are suddenly heated by lightning. 2. any loud booming sound. 3. a violent threat or denunciation. 4. steal someone's thunder to detract from the attention due to another by forestalling him or her.vb.. 1. The crashing or booming sound produced by rapidly expanding air along the path of the electrical discharge of lightning. 2. A sound that resembles or suggests thunder. v. thunÂ·dered, thunÂ·derÂ·ing, thunÂ·ders. v. intr.