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.
crepitant rale a sound like that made by rubbing hairs between the fingers, heard at the end of inhalation. dry rale a fine sound heard in interstitial lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. moist rale a sound heard over fluid in the bronchial tubes. subcrepitant rale a fine moist rale heard over liquid in the smaller tubes.