Word Meanings - CRACKNEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to CRACKNEL)

• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BISCUIT
  A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so
• BRITTLE STAR
  Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• BRITTLE
  Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite. (more info) breótan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw. bryta, Dan. bryde.
• BRITTLENESS
  Aptness to break; fragility.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.