crevIce, cravas, crevase, crevesse, crevis, crevisse

[Fr. creva e, from Fr. crever= to burst asunder, from Lat. crepo.] A crack, a cleft, a narrow opening, a fi ure. [CREVASSE.] "And still, all deadly aim'd and hot, From every crevice comes the shot." Byron: The Siege of Corinth, v. 29. crěv-içe, v. t . [CREVICE, 8.] To crack, to flaw, to make a crevice in. "So laid, they are more apt in swagging down to pierce with their points, than in the jacent posture, and so to crevice the wall." - Wotton: Architecture.