crayon 
Tin; soft crayontt am) tin- half-hard iuv usi-il ihniiiKN tin- 
nifdhiiu ul a >tinii|i, uliilr tin- liiinl lire used as 11 h-itii- 
lifii.il. Sri- jmxti-l. 
Let no day pass over you without. . . givlngsome strokes 
of the iM'iiiil or Die rrayun. 
Drydnt, tr. of Dufrcsnoy's Art of Painting. 
2. A pencil made of a composition of soap, regiu, 
wax, and lampblack, used for drawing upon 
lithographic stones. 3. One of the carbou- 
point.s in an electric lamp. 
II. . Drawn with crayons: as, a crai/nn 
sketch. 
crayon (kni'on). v. t. [= F. erayonner; from 
the noun. J 1. To sketch or draw with a crayon. 
Hence 2. To sketch in general ; plan ; com- 
mit to paper one's first thoughts. 
He soon afterwards composed that discourse conform- 
ably to the plan which he hail crai/onrd out. 
Malinif, Sir J. Kynolds, note. 
crayon-drawing (kra'on-dra'ing), . The act 
or art of drawing with crayons, 
crayonist (kra'on-ist), . [< crayon + -ist.~\ 
One who draws or sketches with crayons. 
Tin- charming crayimists of the eighteenth century. 
Littelis Living Age, CLXI. 73. 
Robert Naiituil (1023 -1078), ncrayonist, and one of the 
most i-iiiinriit of French line engravers. 
Kncyc. Brit., XVII. ITS. 
craze (kraz), r.; pret. and pp. crazed, ppr. craz- 
'</. [Early mod. E. also erase, < ME. crasen, 
break, break to pieces, < Sw. krasa = Dan. 
krase, crackle, orig. break (cf. Sw. sl& i kraft = 
Dan. sluu i kras, break to pieces) ; prob. imita- 
tive. F. ecraser, break, shatter, is also of Scand. 
origin.] I. intrans. If. To break; burst; break 
in pieces. 
To cablys crasen and begynne to ffolde. 
A nc. Metrical Tales (ed. Ilartahonie), p. 128. 
2. To crack or split ; open in slight cracks or 
chinks ; crackle ; specifically, in pottery, to sep- 
arate or peel off from the body : said of the glaze. 
See crazing, 2. 3. To become crazy or insane ; 
become shattered in intellect ; break down. 
For my tortured hraiu begins to craze, 
Be thou my nurse. Keats, Endymion, iv. 
Leave help to God, as I am forced to do ! 
There is no other course, or we should emir, 
Seeing such evil with no human cure. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 41. 
H. trans. If. To break ; break in pieces ; 
crush : as, to craze tin. 
The wyndowes wel yglased 
Ful clere, and nat an hole ycrased. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 324. 
The fine Christall is sooner craned then the hard Marble. 
I. ><l. i. Enphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 39. 
God looking forth will trouble all his host, 
And craze their chariot-wheels. 
Milton, P. L., ill. 210. 
2. To make small cracks in ; produce a flaw or 
flaws in, literally or figuratively. 
'Hie glasse once cram?, will with the least clappe be 
cracked. '//'.". Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 68. 
The title's craz'd, the tenure is not good, 
That claims by th' evidence of flesh and blood. 
Quartet, Emblems, ii. 14. 
The vawlt of the same tower Is so craysed as, for doubt 
of falling*- 1 thereof, ther is a prop of wod set upe to the 
same. Quoted in .V. ami Q., 7th ser., IV. 491. 
3. To disorder ; confuse ; weaken ; impair the 
natural force or energy of. [Obsolete except 
with reference to mental condition.] 
Glue it out that you be crazed and not well disposed, by 
means of your travell at Sea. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 172. 
There Is no ill 
Can craze my health that not assails yours first. 
&au. a nit /'/. (?), Faithful Friends, ii. 3. 
Till length of years 
And sedentary numness craze my limbs. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 571. 
4. To derange the intellect of ; dement ; render 
insane ; make crazy. 
Grief hath eraz'd my wits. slink.. Lear, UL 4. 
Every sinner dues wilder and more extravagant things 
than any man can do that is crazed and out of his wits. 
Tillotson. 
craze (kraz), H. [< craze, >.] 1. A crack in 
the glaze of pottery; a flaw or defect in gen- 
eral. 2. Insanity; craziness; any degree of 
mental derangement. 3. An inordinate de- 
sire or longing; a passion. 
It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean 
dressed :_'fiit<-t'll> . 
J. Wilson, Genius and Char, of Burns, p. 200. 
4. An unreasoning or capricious liking or affec- 
tation of liking, more or less sudden and tempo- 
rary, and usual ly shared by a number of persons, 
especially in society, for something particu- 
lar, uncommon, peculiar, or curious; a passing 
whim: as, a river for old furniture, or for rare 
coins or heraldry. 
1337 
A quirt n-ii.v t. milling everything that pcrtaliu to Na- 
poleon the Great and the N;iii<>lf<.nir 1. -i n.l. 
l--url:,::,/:ll : i A', r . Y S .. \l .11. M, 
crazed (krazd), p. a. [Pp. of mice, r.] 1. Bro- 
ken down; impaired; decrepit. [Obsolete or 
poetical.] 
o: they had all liven saved, but crazed eld 
AniiuU'd my vigorous cravings. Keats. 
2. Cracked in the glaze: said of pottery. 3. 
Insane; demented. 
Forms like some bedlam statuary's dream, 
Tin- craz'd creations of misguided him. 
Burns, Brigs of Ayr. 
crazedness (kra'zed-nes), . A broken or im- 
paired state ; decrepitude ; now, specifically, an 
impaired state of the intellect. 
Re returned In perfect health, feeling no era;: 
nor lunrmity of body. linklitijt's Voyages, II. 60. 
People in the crazedness of their minds, possessed with 
dislike and discontentment at things present, . . . imagine 
that any thing . . . would help them ; but that most, 
which they least have tried. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref. 
craze-millt, crazing-millt (kraz'-, kra'sdng- 
mil), n. A mill for crushing tin ore ; a crush- 
ing-mill. [Cornwall.] 
The tin ore paaseth to the crazing-mill, which, lietween 
two grinding-stones, bruiseth ft to a fine sand. 
R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall. 
crazily (kra'zi-li), adv. In a broken or crazy 
manner. 
craziness (kra'zi-nes), n. If. The state of be- 
ing broken or impaired ; weakness. 
What can you look for 
From an old, foolish, peevish, doting man 
But craziness of age? Ford, Broken Heart, v. 3. 
There is no crasinesse we feel, that is not a record of 
God's having been offended by our nature. 
W. Montague, Devoute Essays, II. x. 2. 
2. The state of being mentally impaired ; weak- 
ness or disorder of the intellect ; insanity. 
It is a curious fact that most of the great reformers in 
history have been accounted by the men of their time 
crazy, and perhaps even more curious that their very era- 
ziness seems to have given them their great force. 
still,. Stud. Med. Hist., p. 344. 
= Syn. Madne**, Delirium, etc. See insanity. 
crazing (Kra'zing), n. [< ME. craitynye ; verbal 
n. of cra:e, r.] If. A cracking; a chink or rift. 
The erasing of the wallis was stoppid. 
Wt/cli/, 2 Chron. xxiv. 13 (Purv.). 
He schal entre into chynnis [chines] ethir [or] crafnrtvjes 
of stoonys. WyetV, Isa. II. 21 (Purv.). 
2. In pottery, a separating of the glaze from 
the body, forming blisters which are easily 
broken. 
This homogeneity [of a hard china body, In porcelain 
manufacture] prevents any crazing, but the process is one 
of much hazard. t-.n-t. Kncyc. 
crazing-millt, See craze-mill. 
crazy (kra'zi), a. [Early mod. E. crasig, crasie; 
< erase + -y*, substituted for earlier erased.) 
1 . Broken ; impaired ; dilapidated ; weak ; fee- 
ble : applied to any structure, but especially to 
a building or to a boat or a coach : as, a crazy old 
house or vessel. 
There arriued with this ship diners Gentlemen of good 
fashion, with their wiues and families; but many of them 
cranie by the tediousnesse of the voyage. 
Quoted in ('apt. John Smith's True Travels, II. 156. 
We are mortal, made of clay, 
Now healthful, now crasie, now sick, now well, 
Now Hue, now dead. Ueywood, If you Know not He, II. 
They with difficulty got a crazy boat to carry them to 
the island. Jeffrey. 
2. Broken, weakened, or disordered in intel- 
lect; deranged; insane; demented. 
Over moist and crazy brains. 
5. Butler, Hudibras, III. i. 1323. 
3. Caused by or arising from mental derange- 
ment; marked by or manifesting insanity: as, 
a i'1-ii.i/ speech ; crazy actions. 
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, 
No life that breathes with human breath 
Has ever truly long'd for death. 
'I',-, i, iii>::, i. Two Voices. 
crazy-bone (kra'zi-bon), n. Same Mfuuny-bone. 
crazy-quilt (kra'zi-kwilt), n. A quilt or cover 
for a bed, sofa, etc., made of crazy-work. 
crazy-weed (kra'zi-wed), . A name given to 
various plants growing in the western United 
States, tne eating of which by horses and cat- 
tle produces emaciation, nervous derangements, 
and death: often called loco-weed (which see). 
Among them are species of Astragalus, Oiy- 
iru/ii*. and perhaps some plants of otiier genera. 
crazy-work (kra zi-werk), w. A kind of patch- 
work in which irregular pieces of colored silk 
and other material are applied upon a founda- 
tion, in fantastic patterns, or without any reg- 
ular pattern, and their edges are stitched and 
embroidered in various ways. 
cream 
creablet (knVn-bl), . [= F. crtable = Sp. crc- 
iilili; < L i-ri-iiiiilix, < i-n-iirr, create: see create.] 
Tliat may be created. liiitt*. 
creach,creagh(krach), . [< Gael. craicA.pl un- 
iliT, pillage/] A Highland foray; a plunder- 
ing excursion ; a raid. 
Creadion (kre-ad'i-on), . [NL. (Vieillot, 
1816); also Creailittm and erroneously Creadio; 
< Or. ic/ieditov, a morsel of meat, dim. of */<;, 
flesh.] 1. A genus of sturnoid passerine birds 
peculiar to New Zealand, having as its type 
C. carunculatun. 2f. A genus of meliphagine 
birds, named by Lesson, 1837 : a synonym of 
.Inl/iin-liirra. 
creagh, . See creach. 
creaghtt, 
- 
[Appar. < Ir. and Oael. graiijh. 
, flock, = ' 
.] A herd 
[< <-i-i in/lil, .] To graze on lands. 
. . . 
li. a herd, flock, = L. grejc (greg-), flock : 
see gregarioun.'] A herd of cattle. I lull in-ill. 
creaghtt, r. i 
Davtes. 
creak 1 (krek), v. [Early mod. E. also creek, also, 
as still dial., crick; < ME. creken, make a harsh, 
grating sound (of. D. krieken, chirp, kriek, a 
cricket) ; an imitative var. of crack : see crack, 
charkl, and crirfc 1 , cricket 1 .'] I. intrant. To make 
a sharp, harsh, grating, or squeaking sound, 
as by the friction of hard substances : as, the 
gate creaks on its hinges; creaking shoes. 
l.fnili. You cannot bear him down with your base nolle, 
sir. 
Busy. Nor he me, with his treble creekinn, though he 
creek like the chariot wheels of Satan. 
/;. Jmuun, Bartholomew Fair, v. S. 
No swinging sign-ttoard creaked from cottage elm 
To stay his steps with faintness overcome. 
Wordtuvrth, Guilt and Sorrow, xvi. 
II. >"i i'*-. To cause to make a sharp, harsh, 
grating, or squeaking sound. [Rare.] 
I shall stay here . . . 
Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. 
Shak., All s Well, II. 1. 
creak 1 (krek), n. [< creak 1 , r.] A sharp, harsh, 
grating sound, as that produced by the friction 
of hard substances. 
A wagging leaf, a puff, a crack, 
Yea, the least creak, shall make thee turn thy back. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, II., 'I In Lawe. 
The loath gate swings with rusty creak. 
Lowell, Palinode. 
creak 2 (krak), . A dialectal variant of crake 2 . 
creaky (kre'ki), a. [< creak 1 + -y 1 .] Creak- 
ing ; apt to creak. 
A rusty, crazy, creaky, dry-rotted, damp-rotted, dingy, 
dark, and miserable old dungeon. 
1 1 mi-Hi "fur. Seven Gables, p. 296. 
cream 1 (krem), n. [< ME. creme, sometimes 
spelled crayme, < OF. cresme, prop, creme. P. 
creme = Pr. Sp. It. crema = Pg. creme, < ML. 
crema, cremum, cream, another use of LL. cre- 
m H in. equiv. to L. cretnor, thick juice or broth. 
Not connected with AS. ream, E. ream, cream : 
see rcnm 2 .] 1. The richer and butyraceous 
part of milk, which, when the milk stands un- 
agitated in a cool place, rises and forms an oily or 
viscid scum on the surface ; hence, in general, 
any part of a liquor that separates from the rest , 
rises, and collects on the surface. By agitating 
the cream of milk-, butter is formed. 
Blawnche creme, with annys [anise) in confete. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. 8., extra ser.), I. 92. 
Nor robb'd the fanner of his bowl of cream. 
Tennyson, Princes*, r. 
2. Something resembling cream ; any liquid or 
soft paste of the consistency of cream : as, the 
cream of ale ; shaving-cream. 
Pour water to the depth of about three-fourths of an 
Inch, and then sprinkle In . . . enough plaster of Paris to 
form a thick cream. Sei. Amer., N. S., LVII. 24. 
3. In xliiit-miil.inii. a spongy crust of oxid taken 
from the surface of the lead, and used to coat 
over the bottom of the colander, to keep the lead 
from running too rapidly through the holes. 
4. The best part of a thing; the choice part; 
the quintessence : as, the cream of a jest or story. 
Welcome, U flower and crram of knights-errant. 
Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, II. 31. 
But now mark, good people, the cream of the jest. 
Catfkins Garland (Child's Ballads, VIII. 174) 
The cream of the day rise* with the sun. 
O. r. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life. p. 230. 
5. A sweetmeat or dish prepared from cream, 
or of such consistency as to resemble cream : as, 
an iced cream, or ice-cream ; a chocolate cream. 
The remnants of a devoured feast fragments of dis- 
sected fowls ends of well-notched tongues creams half 
demolished. Hook, Gilbert Gurnejr, I. r!L 
6. A name given to certain cordials because 
of their thick (viscid) consistency, with per- 
haps some reference to their reputed excellence . 
