Definition of "crepitant" [crep•i•tant]

• Crackling; rattling (adjective)

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• "  The crepitant woods of the Deep South were foreboding enough in daylight, the Spanish moss stringing down from the oaks like the disemboweled spirits of ghosts."
• "For the following hour, we pursued this occupation with silent intensity, the quiet of the room broken only by the dry, crepitant rustle of the turning pages, and the occasional muttered complaint from my companion, who periodically avowed that he would “sooner be wrassling a passel of wildcats than wading through all this infernal writing.”"
• "The upper lobe was crepitant, though infiltrated with carbon into the interlobular cellular tissue."