CPage 469
- English Word Crack Definition To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
- English Word Crack Definition To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
- English Word Crack Definition To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
- English Word Crack Definition To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
- English Word Crack Definition A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
- English Word Crack Definition Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
- English Word Crack Definition A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
- English Word Crack Definition The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- English Word Crack Definition Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
- English Word Crack Definition A crazy or crack-brained person.
- English Word Crack Definition A boast; boasting.
- English Word Crack Definition Breach of chastity.
- English Word Crack Definition A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
- English Word Crack Definition A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
- English Word Crack Definition Free conversation; friendly chat.
- English Word Crack Definition Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
- English Word Crack-brained Definition Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.
- English Word Cracked Definition of Crack
- English Word Cracked Definition Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
- English Word Cracked Definition Crack-brained.
- English Word Cracker Definition One who, or that which, cracks.
- English Word Cracker Definition A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
- English Word Cracker Definition A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
- English Word Cracker Definition A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
- English Word Cracker Definition A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
- English Word Cracker Definition The pintail duck.
- English Word Cracker Definition A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
- English Word Cracking Definition of Crack
- English Word Crackle Definition To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
- English Word Crackle Definition The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.