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n.
A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
n.
That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.
n.
A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
v. i.
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
v. i.
To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
v. t.
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
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A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.
v. i.
The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc.) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup.
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A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
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Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions.
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To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.
v. t.
The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.
v. i.
To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
v. i.
To flow through crevices; to percolate.
n.
A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.
a.
Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.
n.
To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.
v. i.
To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
v.
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
n.
A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]
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