Crack
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
(2): (v. t.) To cry up; to extol; - followed by up.
(3): (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
(4): (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
(5): (v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
(6): (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; - with of.
(7): (v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
(8): (n.) 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.
(9): (n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
(10): (v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
(11): (n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
(12): (n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
(13): (n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.
(14): (n.) A boast; boasting.
(15): (n.) Breach of chastity.
(16): (n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
(17): (n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
(18): (n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.
(19): (a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
(20): (n.) 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.
(21): (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
King James Dictionary [2]
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.
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.
