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.
Tickling is the act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter. The word tickle (helpÂ·info) evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly.