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Webster 1913 Edition

(kr?v′?s)

Noun.

[OE.

crevace

crevice

. F.

crevasse

, fr.

crever

to break, burst, fr. L.

crepare

to crack,break. Cf.

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

The mouse,
Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked,
Or from the

crevice

peered about.

Tennyson.

Verb.

To crack; to flaw.

[R.]

Sir H. Wotton.

Noun.

[L., to burst. See Crepitate and Rip.] A crack; a cleft; a fissure; a rent; an opening; as a crevice in a wall.

Verb.

To crack; to flaw.