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crepitare

crepitare [CL] , to rattle, crackle or sim. b (trans.) to twitter. ceu laris accensi crepitant incendia flammis Aldh. VirgV 2620; 9‥ ~at, i. resonat, scylþ, cyrmþ, ræscetteþ ‥, ~antia lora, brastliende bendas GlH C 2052, 2059; stridor flammarum †trepidantibus [l. crepitantibus] virgis virgultorum ‥ terribiliter insonuit G. Herw. 335 (cf. Lib. Eli. II 107); a crotalo crepitans nomen crotalistria sumpsit Neckam DS II 585.  b garrula mox crepitat rubicundum carmina guttur Aldh. Aen. 47 (Hirundo) 4.

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