Webster's Dictionary 1913

8911

Crabbing

Crab″bing, n. 1. The act or art of catching crabs.2. (Falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.3. (Woolen Manuf.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.

8912

Crabbish

Crab″bish (krăb″bĭsh), a. Somewhat sour or cross.The whips of the most crabbish Satyristes.Decker.

8913

Crabby

Crab″by (–by̆), a. Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. “Persius is crabby, because ancient.” Marston.

8914

Crabeater

Crab″eat′er (krăb″ēt′ẽr), n.(Zoöl.) (a) The cobia. (b) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). (c) A small European heron (Ardea minuta,...

8915

Craber

Cra″ber (krā″bẽr), n.(Zoöl.) The water rat. Walton.

8916

Crabfaced

Crab″faced′ (krăb″fāst′), a. Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau. & Fl.

8917

Crabsidle

Crab″si′dle (–sī′d'l), v. i. To move sidewise, as a crab.. Southey.

8918

Crabstick

Crab″stick′ (–stĭk′), n. A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.

8919

Crache

Crache (krăch), v. To scratch. Chaucer.

8920

Crack

Crack (krăk), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cracked (krăkt); p. pr. & vb. n.Cracking.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. ...

8921

Crack (2)

Crack, v. i. 1. 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 si...

8922

Crack (3)

Crack, n. 1. 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 gla...

8923

Crack (4)

Crack, a. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.One of our crack speakers in the Commons.Dickens.

8924

Crack-brained

Crack″–brained′ (–brānd′), a. Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.

8925

Crack-loo

{ Crack″–loo′ (?), n. Also Crack″a‐loo′ }. A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible t...

8926

Crackajack

Crack″a‐jack′ (?), n. 1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis.2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed...

8927

Crackajack (2)

Crack″a‐jack′, a. Of marked ability or excellence.

8928

Cracked

Cracked (krăkt), a. 1. Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.2. Crack-brained.

8929

Cracker

Crack″er (krăk″ẽr), n. 1. One who, or that which, cracks.2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.What cracker is this same that deafs our ears?Shak.3. A small firework, consisti...

8930

Cracker State

Cracker State. Georgia; — a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.

8931

Crackle

Crac″kle (krăk″k'l), v. i. [Dim. of crack.] To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle....

8932

Crackle (2)

Crac″kle, n. 1. The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.The crackle of fireworks.Carlyle.2. (Med.) A kind of crackling sound or râle, heard in some abnor...

8933

Crackled

Crac″kled (–k'ld), a.(Fine Arts) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; — said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

8934

Crackleware

Crac″kle‐ware′ (–w?r′), n. See Crackle, n., 3.

8935

Crackling

Crac″kling (kr?k″kl?ng), n. 1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.Eccl. vii...

8936

Cracknel

Crack″nel (kr?k″n?l), n. [F. craquelin, fr. D. krakeling, fr. krakken to crack. See Crack, v. t.] A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.

8937

Cracksman

Cracks″man (kr?ks″man), n., pl.Cracksmen (–men). A burglar.