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   Crazy (krāˈzy̆), a. [From Craze.]
   1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
   
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   Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macaulay.
   
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   One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison.
   
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   They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.
   
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   2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
   
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   Over moist and crazy brains. Hudibras.
   
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   3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.]
   
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   The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball.
   
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   Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. -- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.
   
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