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CRACK, v.t.

1. To rend, break, or burst into chinks; to break partially; to divide the parts a little from each other; as, to crack a board or a rock; or to break without an entire severance of the parts; as, to crack glass, or ice.

2. To break in pieces; as, to crack nuts.

3. To break with grief; to affect deeply; to pain; to torture; as, to crack the heart. We now use break , or rend.

4. To open and drink; as, to crack a bottle of wine. [Low.]

5. To thrust out, or cast with smartness; as, to crack a joke.

6. To snap; to make a sharp sudden noise; as, to crack a whip.

7. To break or destroy.

8. To impair the regular exercise of the intellectual faculties; to disorder; to make crazy; as, to crack the brain.

CRACK, v.i.

1. To burst; to open in chinks; as, the earth cracks by frost; or to be marred without an opening; as, glass cracks by a sudden application of heat.

2. To fall to ruin, or to be impaired.

The credit of the exchequer cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. [Not elegant.]

3. To utter a loud or sharp sudden sound; as, the clouds crack; the whip cracks.

4. To boast; to brag; that is, to utter vain, pompous, blustering words; with of.

The Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack. [Not elegant.]

CRACK, n. [Gr.]

1. A disruption; a chinkor fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; a partial separation of the parts of a substance, with or without an opening; as a crack in timber, in a wall, or in glass.

2. A burst of sound; a sharp or loud sound, uttered suddenly or with vehemence; the sound of any thing suddenly rent; a violent report; as the crack of a falling house; the crack of a whip.

3. Change of voice in puberty.

4. Craziness of intellect; or a crazy person.

5. A boast, or boaster. [Low.]

6. Breach of chastity; and a prostitute. [Low.]

7. A lad; an instant. [Not used.]
1913 Definition
Crack (crack)
v. t.(kr1913 webster dictionaryk)
Crack
[imp. *** p. p. Cracked (kr&abreve]kt); p. pr. *** vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack] akin to D. kra
  1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
  2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

    O, madam, my old heart is cracked.
    Shak.

    He thought none poets till their brains were cracked.
    Roscommon.

  3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
  4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
    B. Jonson.
  5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
    [Low]

    To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. -- To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] -- To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]

  6. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.

    By misfortune it cracked in the coling.
    Boyle.

    The mirror cracked from side to side.
    Tennyson.

  7. To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
    [Collog.]

    The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
    Dryden.

  8. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.

    As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
    Shak.

  9. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
    [Archaic.]

    Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack.
    Shak.

  10. 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.
  11. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.

    My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
    Shak.

  12. 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.

    Will the stretch out to the crack of doom?
    Shak.

  13. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

    Though now our voices
    Have got the mannish crack.
    Shak.

  14. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
  15. A crazy or crack-brained person.
    [Obs.]

    I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
    Addison.

  16. A boast; boasting.
    [Obs.] "Crack and brags." Burton. "Vainglorius cracks." Spenser.
  17. Breach of chastity.
    [Obs.] Shak.
  18. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
    [Obs.]

    Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam.
    Shak.

  19. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
    [Eng. *** Scot. Colloq.]
  20. Free conversation] friendly chat.
    [Scot.]

    What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it.
    P. P. Alexander.

  21. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
    [Colloq.]

    One of our crack speakers in the Commons.
    Dickens.

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