Definitions from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:
Crack
(a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
(n.) A boast; boasting.
(n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
(n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
(n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.
(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.
(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.
(n.) Breach of chastity.
(n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.
(n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
(n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
(n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
(v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
(v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
(v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
(v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
(v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
(v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
(v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
(v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
(v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)
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