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   Crack , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, Creak.]
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   To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
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   To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
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   O, madam, my old heart is cracked.
   Shak.
   
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   He thought none poets till their brains were cracked.
   Roscommon.
   
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   To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
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   To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
   B. Jonson.
   
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   To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low]
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   To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. -- To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] -- To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]
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   Crack, v. i.
   To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
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   By misfortune it cracked in the coling.
   Boyle.
   
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   The mirror cracked from side to side.
   Tennyson.
   
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   To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.]
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   The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
   Dryden.
   
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   To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
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   As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
   Shak.
   
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   To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. [Archaic.]
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   Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack.
   Shak.
   
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   Crack, 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.
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   Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
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   My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
   Shak.
   
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   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.
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   Will the stretch out to the crack of doom?
   Shak.
   
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   The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
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   Though now our voices
   Have got the mannish crack.
   Shak.
   
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   Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
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   A crazy or crack-brained person. [Obs.]
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   I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.
   Addison.
   
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   A boast; boasting. [Obs.] “Crack and brags.” Burton. “Vainglorius cracks.” Spenser.
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   Breach of chastity. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   A boy, generally a pert, lively boy. [Obs.]
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   Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam.
   Shak.
   
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   A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack. [Eng. & Scot. Colloq.]
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   Free conversation; friendly chat. [Scot.]
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   What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it.
   P. P. Alexander.
   
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   a witty remark; a wisecrack.
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   a chance or opportunity to do something; an attempt; as, I'll take a crack at it.
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   a form of cocaine, highly purified and prepared as small pellets, especially suitable for smoking; -- also called rock. Used in this form it appears to be more addicting than cocaine powder. [slang] 
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   Crack, a. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; as, a crack shot. [Colloq.]
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   One of our crack speakers in the Commons.
   Dickens.
   
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