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Crack [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A disruption; a chinkor fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; a partial separation of the parts of a substance, with or without an opening; as a crack in timber, in a wall, or in glass.

2. A burst of sound; a sharp or loud sound, uttered suddenly or with vehemence; the sound of any thing suddenly rent; a violent report; as the crack of a falling house; the crack of a whip.

3. Change of voice in puberty.

4. Craziness of intellect; or a crazy person.

5. A boast, or boaster. [Low.]

6. Breach of chastity; and a prostitute. [Low.]

7. A lad; an instant. [Not used.]

Crack [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To burst; to open in chinks; as, the earth cracks by frost; or to be marred without an opening; as, glass cracks by a sudden application of heat.

2. To fall to ruin, or to be impaired.

3. The credit of the exchequer cracks, when little comes in and much goes out. [Not elegant.]

4. To utter a loud or sharp sudden sound; as, the clouds crack; the whip cracks.

5. To boast; to brag; that is, to utter vain, pompous, blustering words; with of.

6. The Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack [Not elegant.]

Crack [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To rend, break, or burst into chinks; to break partially; to divide the parts a little from each other; as, to crack a board or a rock; or to break without an entire severance of the parts; as, to crack glass, or ice.

2. To break in pieces; as, to crack nuts.

3. To break with grief; to affect deeply; to pain; to torture; as, to crack the heart. We now use break , or rend.

4. To open and drink; as, to crack a bottle of wine. [Low.]

5. To thrust out, or cast with smartness; as, to crack a joke.

6. To snap; to make a sharp sudden noise; as, to crack a whip.

7. To break or destroy.

8. To impair the regular exercise of the intellectual faculties; to disorder; to make crazy; as, to crack the brain.

Crack [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.

Crack [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.

3. 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.

4. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

5. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.

6. A crazy or crack-brained person.

7. A boast; boasting.

8. Breach of chastity.

9. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

10. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.

11. Free conversation; friendly chat.

Crack [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.

2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.

4. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.

Crack [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.

4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.

5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.

Crack-brained [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having intellects impaired; crazy.

Crack-brained [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.

Crack-hemp [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A wretch fated to the gallows; one who deserves to be hanged.

Crack-rope [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

CRACK-HEMP, CRACK-ROPE noun A wretch fated to the gallows; one who deserves to be hanged.

Cracked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

2. Crack-brained.

Cracked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Cracker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A noisy boasting fellow.

2. A rocket; a quantity of gunpowder confined so as to explode with noise.

3. A hard biscuit.

4. That which cracks any thing.

Cracker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, cracks.

2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.

3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.

4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.

5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.

6. The pintail duck.

7. A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.

Cracking [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

CRACKING , ppr. Breaking or dividing partially; opening; impairing; snapping; uttering a sudden sharp or loud sound; boasting; casting jokes.

Cracking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Crackle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make slight cracks; to make small abrupt noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to decrepitate; as, burning thorns crackle

Crackle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.

3. A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

Crackle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.

Crackled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Crackleware [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Crackling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The making of small abrupt cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

2. The crackling of thorns under a pot. Ecclesiastes 7:6 .

Crackling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making slight cracks, or abrupt noises.

Crackling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.

3. Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.

Cracknel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A hard brittle cake or biscuit. 1 Kings 14:3 .

Cracknel [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hard brittle cake or biscuit.

Cracksman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A burglar.

Cracksmen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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King James Bible KJV Bible

Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible

2 KJV and 8 BSB verses contain “Crack”

Joshua 9:4

They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

Joshua 9:13

And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey.”

1 Kings 14:3

And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

Jeremiah 14:4

Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Joel 2:5

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

Nahum 3:2

The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!