Part 2532

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To cry up; to extol; -- followed by <i>up</i></def>. <mark></mark>

<cs><col>To crack a bottle</col>, <cd>to open the bottle and drink its contents.</cd> -- <col>To crack a crib</col>, <cd>to commit burglary.</cd> <mark>[Slang]</mark> -- <col>To crack on</col>, <cd>to put on; as, <i>to crack on</i> more sail, or more steam. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Crack</h1> <Xpage=338>

<hw>Crack</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.</def>

<blockquote>By misfortune it <b>cracked</b> in the coling. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The mirror <b>cracked</b> from side to side. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be ruined or impaired; to fail.</def> <mark>[Collog.]</mark>

<blockquote>The credit . . . of exchequers <b>cracks</b>, when little comes in and much goes out. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.</def>

<blockquote>As thunder when the clouds in autumn <b>crack</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with <i>of</i>.</def> <mark>[Archaic.]</mark>

<blockquote>Ethoipes of their sweet complexion <b>crack</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crack</h1> <Xpage=338>

<hw>Crack</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; <as>as, a <ex>crack</ex> in timber, or in a wall, or in glass</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Ropture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.</def>

<blockquote>My love to thee is sound, sans <b>crack</b> or flaw. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; <as>as, the <ex>crack</ex> of a falling house; the <ex>crack</ex> of thunder; the <ex>crack</ex> of a whip.</as></def>

<blockquote>Will the stretch out to the <b>crack</b> of doom? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The tone of voice when changed at puberty.</def>

<blockquote>Though now our voices Have got the mannish <b>crack</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; <as>as, he has a <ex>crack</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A crazy or crack-brained person.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a <b>crack</b> and a projector. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A boast; boasting.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Crack</i> and brags." <i>Burton</i>. "Vainglorius <i>cracks</i>." <i>Spenser</i>.

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Breach of chastity.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>