Vocabulary : Crab-yaws to Cracking
Crab-yaws : A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.Crache : To scratch.
Crack : To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. ;; To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. ;; To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip. ;; To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. ;; To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. ;; To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. ;; To be ruined or impaired; to fail. ;; To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound. ;; To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. ;; 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. ;; Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense. ;; 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. ;; The tone of voice when changed a
Crackajack : An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. ;; A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes. ;; Of marked ability or excellence.
Crackaloo : 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.
