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line, abforbent, and in fome degree diuretic. Hill. —Se¬ 
veral perfons had, in vain, endeavoured to flore them- 
felves with crab's-cycs. Boyle. 
CRAB-ISLAND. See Bikka. 
CRAB-LICE, f. A vermin,.which being viewed un¬ 
der the microfcopc, nearly rel'emble the fmall crab-fifli ; 
whence their popular name. They are alfo called pluc- 
iulce, morpiones, petola, and pejfolatce-. they ufually infed 
the arm-pits and pudenda. They will- be quickly de¬ 
stroyed upon the application of a rag wet with the milk 
of fubliraate. 
CRAB-ORCHARD, a pod town of the American 
States, on Dick’s .river, in Kentucky, eight miles from 
Cumberland river, and twenty-five, miles louth-ead of 
Danville- The road to Virginia palies through this place. 
CRAB-TREE, J'. in botany. See MAlus. 
CRAB-VALLY, a bay on the wed coad of the illand 
of Antigua : two miles fouth from Reed Point. 
CRAB-YAWS,/ A name in Jamaica for a kind of 
ulcer on the foies of the feet. 
CRAB'BED, adj. Peevilh ; morofc ; cynical; four: 
A man of years, yet fre fit, as mote appear, 
Of fwarth complexion, and of crabbed, hue. Spenfer. 
O, die is 
Ten times more gentle, than her father’s crabbed. Shakcfp. 
Harfti ; unpleafing: 
How charming is divine philofophy ! 
Not harfit and crabbed, as dull fools fuppofe, 
But mudeal as is Apollo’s lute, 
And a perpetual fealt of neftard fvveets, 
Where no crude furfeit reigns’ Milton. 
Difficult; perplexing.—Lucretius had chofen a fubject 
naturally crabbed. Dryden. 
Your crabbed rogues that read Lucretius 
Are againd gods, you know. Prior. 
CRAB'BEDLY, adv. Peevifitly ; morofely ; with per¬ 
plexity. 
CRAB'BEDNESS,yi Sournefs of tade. Sournefs of 
countenance ; afperity of manners. Difficulty; perplexity. 
CRA'BER, f. The poor fiflt have enemies enough, 
beddefuch unnatural dlliermen as otters, the cormorant, 
and the craber, which fome call the water-rat. Walton. 
CRACATO'A, an illand in the Straits of Sunda, re¬ 
markably high peaked, celebrated for its excellent water. 
Captain Cook vidted this illand in his lad voyage, and 
found on the coral rocks which fkirt the fliores, plenty 
of fmall green turtle. Lat. 8. 5. S. Ion. 105. 36. E. 
Greenwich. 
CRAC'CA,/. in botany. See Ervum, and Vicia. 
- CRACK, J\ \_kraerk, Dut.l A hidden difruption, by 
which the parts are feparated but a little way from each 
other. The chink, dlfure, or vacuity, made by difrup¬ 
tion ; a narrow breach.—Contudons, when great, do 
ufually produce a filfure or crack of the fkull, either in 
the fame part where the blow was inflicted, or in the 
contrary part. Wifeman. —The found of any body burd- 
ing or falling : 
Now day appears, and with the day the king, 
Whofe early care had robb’d him of his red : 
Far oft" the cracks of falling houfes ring, 
And dirieks of fubjedts pierce his tender bread. Dryden. 
Any hidden and quick found.—Vulcan was employed in 
hammering out thunderbolts, that every now and then 
flew up from the anvil with dreadful cracks and flalhes, 
Addifon. —Change of the voice in puberty : 
And let us, Paladour, though now our voices 
Have got the inannifh crack , ling him to the ground. 
Shakejpeare, 
Breach of chadity : 
I cannot 
Believe this crack to be in my dread miftrefs, 
So fovcreignly being honourable, Shakejpeare. 
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Crazinefs of intelledl. A man crazed.—I have invented 
projects for railing millions, without burthening the lub- 
jeid ; but cannot get the parliament to liden to me, who 
look upon me as a crack and a projector. Addifon. —A 
whore, in low language. A boad ; a bonder. This is only 
in low phraj'e. A diarp boy .—1 law him break Scogah’s 
head at the court-gate, when he was a crack, not thus 
high. Shakejpeare. 
If we could get a witty boy now, Eugene, 
That were an excellent crack, I could indruft him 
To the true height. Ben Johfon. 
To CRACK, ’v. a. \_kraecken , Dut.J To break into 1 
chinks ; to divide the parts a little from each ether.— 
I.ook to your pipes, and cover them with freih and warm 
litter out of the liable, a good'thicknefs, led tlie froft 
crack them. Mortimer. —To break ; to fplit.—Thou wilt 
quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other 
reafon but becaufe thou had hazel eyes. Shakejpeare, 
Honour is like that glady bubble, 
That duds philofophers fuch trouble; 
Whole lead part crack'd , the whole does fly, 
And wits are crack'd to find out why, Hudibras, 
To do any thing with quicknefs or fmartnefs 
Sir Balaam now, he lives like other folks ; 
He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope. 
To break or dedroy any thing.—Love cools, friendfhip 
falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in coun¬ 
tries, difeord ; in palaces, treafon ; and the bond crack'd 
’tvvixt fon and father. Shakejpeare. —To craze; to weaken 
the intellect.—I was ever of opinion, that the philofo- 
pher’s done, and an holy war, were but the rendezvous 
of cracked brains, that wore their feather in their heads. 
Bacon. 
To CRACK, v. n. To burd ; to open in chinks.—By 
misfortune it cracked in the cooling, whereby we were 
reduced to make ufe of one part, which was draight and 
intire. Boyle. —To fall to ruin.—The credit not only of 
banks, but of exchequers, cracks, when little comes in, 
and much goes out. Dryden. —To utter a loud and hid¬ 
den found : 
I will board her, though die chide as loud 
As thunder, when the clouds in autumn crack. Shakcfp < 
To boad; with o/": 
To look like her, are cliimney-fweepers black. 
And fince her time are colliers counted bright. 
And Ethiops of their fweet complexion crack : 
Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. Skahifpearc f 
CRACK-BRAINED, adj. Crazy ; without right rea¬ 
fon.—We have fent you an anfwer to the ill-grounded 
fbphifms of thofe crack-brained fellows. Arbuthnht. 
CRACK-HEMP, A wretch fated to the gallows j 
a crack-rope : Jurcifer: 
Come hither, crack-hemp. 
—Come hither, you rogue : 
What, have you forgot me ? Shakejpeare. 
CRACK-ROPE, J. A fellow that deferves hanging. 
CRACK’ER,y; A noify boading vociferous perlon ; 
What cracker is this fame, that deafs our ears 
With this abundance of fuperfluous breath. Shakejpeare. 
A quantity of gun-powder confined fo as to burd with 
great noife.—The bladder, at its breaking, gave a great 
report, almod like a cracker. Boyle . 
Then furious he begins his march, 
Drives rattling o’er a brazen arch. 
With iquibs and crackers arm’d, to throw 
Among the trembling crowd below. Swift „ 
CRACK'ISH, adj. Inclined to lewdnefs. A low word.. 
To CRACK’LE, v. ??„ 'fo make.flight cracks; to make 
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