To scratch.

Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; as, a crack shot.

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; extremely foolish; crazy; as, crackbrained notions.

Of marked ability or excellence.

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 to a certain crack in the floor.

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

One who, or that which, cracks.

Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.

characteristic of country life; as, cracker-barrel philosophy.

a creeping red-berried perenial herb (Cornus canadensis) distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska.

Of marked ability or excellence.

crazy.

same as groovy, sense 1.

The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.

Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

See Crackle, n., 3.

The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

A hard brittle cake or biscuit.

a whimsically eccentric person.

A burglar.

Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.

A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.

Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century.

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.

a quiet song that lulls a child to sleep.

The act of using a cradle.

To play tricks; to practice artifice.

With craft; artfully; cunningly.

Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

Without craft or cunning.

One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

The work of a craftsman.

One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.

Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.

The neck or throat

Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.

The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.

The state of being craggy.

Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.

One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

See Crare.

A creel or osier basket.

Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

See Crowberry.

One who boasts; a braggart.

The act of cramming.

A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.

One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.

Crimson.

Knotty; difficult.

See Cramp, n., 2.

a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries.

inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped office.

A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.

The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

See Crampet.

An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.

Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (Viburnum Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.

a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries. It is sometimes called high cranberry to distinguish it from the marsh cranberry or low cranberry.

See Craunch.

A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. To dress with a crandall.

To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.

to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.

A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.

See Krang.

shrimps.

A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

Of or pertaining to the cranium.

The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery.

An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.

Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.

The science of the form and characteristics of the skull.

Of or pertaining to craniology.

One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.

The department of science (as of ethnology or arch/ology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.

An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

Pertaining to craniometry.

The art or act of measuring skulls.

One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy.

Scientific examination of the cranium.

A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.

The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.

To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

the housing for a crankshaft and connecting parts in an internal-combustion engine.

Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.

Crankness.

A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.

Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Full of spirit; crank.

Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall.

One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake.

Quick; giddy; thoughtless.

The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

A garland carried before the bier of a maiden.

to defecate. Same as take a crap.

to throw a 2, 3, or 12 on the first throw in the game of craps, thereby losing that turn.

A toad.

An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.

To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk.

a fern of New Zealand (Leptopteris superba) with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea.

a tropical shrub (Tabernaemontana divaricata), native to India, having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; Northern India to Thailand.

an tall East Indian and Chinese shrub (Lagerstroemia indica of the loosestrife family, commonly planted in Southern and Western U. S. as an ornamental shrub. It has clusters of red, white, purple, or pink flowers.

Salted codfish hardened by pressure.

a game in which two play solitaire with separate packs.

A hook or drag; a grapnel.

same as bullshit.

a toilet.

A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.

A claw.

of very poor quality.

A gambling game with dice. It is one of the more popular games in casinos.

Same as Crapulence.

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses.