| lice | (n.) | louse |
| louse | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. louse, sucking louse | wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals. |
| ~ insect | small air-breathing arthropod. |
| ~ anoplura, order anoplura | sucking lice. |
| ~ common louse, pediculus humanus | head or body louse. |
| ~ head louse, pediculus capitis | infests the head and body of humans. |
| ~ body louse, cootie, pediculus corporis | a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings. |
| ~ crab louse, phthirius pubis, pubic louse, crab | a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body. |
| n. (person) | 2. dirt ball, insect, louse, worm | a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect. |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
| n. (animal) | 3. louse, plant louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants. |
| ~ homopteran, homopterous insect | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings. |
| ~ aphid | any of various small plant-sucking insects. |
| ~ adelgid | any of various insects that feed and form galls on conifers. |
| ~ grape louse, grape phylloxera, phylloxera vitifoleae | destructive to various grape plants. |
| ~ jumping plant louse, psylla, psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices. |
| ~ oak blight | a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods. |
| n. (animal) | 4. bird louse, biting louse, louse | wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds. |
| ~ insect | small air-breathing arthropod. |
| ~ mallophaga, order mallophaga | biting lice. |
| ~ chicken louse, menopon gallinae, menopon palladum, shaft louse | a louse parasitic on poultry. |
| louse | | |
| crackle | | |
| n. (event) | 1. crackle, crackling, crepitation | the sharp sound of snapping noises. |
| ~ decrepitation | the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated. |
| ~ noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound).; "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. crackle, crackle china, crackleware | glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface. |
| ~ china | high quality porcelain originally made only in China. |
| v. (perception) | 3. crackle, crepitate | make a crackling sound.; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl" |
| ~ rattle | make short successive sounds. |
| v. (communication) | 4. crackle, crunch, scranch, scraunch | make a crushing noise.; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel" |
| ~ make noise, noise, resound | emit a noise. |
| ~ crump, scrunch, thud | make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants. |
| v. (change) | 5. crackle | to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks.; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand" |
| ~ vary, alter, change | become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" |
| adj. | 6. crackle | having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware.; "a crackle glaze" |
| ~ fancy | not plain; decorative or ornamented.; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" |
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