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Show CR CR 2. To break ; to fplit Shakefpeare Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts having no other reafon but becaufe thou haft haze Shakefpeare eyes Should fome wild fig-tree take her native bent And heave below the gaudy monument Would crack the marble titles, and difperf Or as a lute, which in moift weather ring Her knell alone, by cracking of her ftrings. Donsne Honour is like that glaffy bubble That finds philofophers fuch trouble ‘Whofe leaft part crack'd, the whole does fly Hudibras 3, To do any thing with quicknefs o {martnefs Sir Balaam now, he lives like other folks He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes Pope 4. To break or deftroy any thing You'll ¢rack a quart together! Ha, will you not Shakefpeare Love cools, friendfhip falls off, brothers divide #n cities, mutinies ; in countries, difcord ; in palaces, treafon; and the bond cracked *twixt fon an father Shakefpeare's King Lear g. To craze; to weaken the intellett I was ever of opinion, that the philofopher' ftone, and an holy war, were but the rendezvou of cracked brains, that wore their feather in thei heads Bacon's Holy War He thought non _cracht poets till their brains wer 9o Crack. @. 1. To burft; to open in chinks Rofcommon By misfortune it cracked in the cooling, whereb we were reduced to make ufe of on was ftraight and intire 2. To fall to ruin part, whic Boyle The credit not only of banks, but of exchequers eracks when little comes in, and much goes out Dryden 8. To utter a loud and fudden found I will board her, though fhe chide as lou As thunder, when the clouds in autumn crack Shakefpeare 4 To boaft: with of To look like her, are chimney-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 Shakefpeare CRACK-BRAINED. adj. [crack and brain- ed.] Crazy ; without right reafon ‘We have fent you an anfwer to the ill-grounde fophifms of thofe crack-brained fellows Arbuthnot and Pope Crack-EMP. 7. /. [crack and hemp. wretc fated to the gallows YOpE : furcifer Com ‘se---1I hop =Come hither What, have yo a crack hither, crack-bem I may chufe, Sir you rogue forgot me Shakefpeare's Taming of the Shreav CrACK-ROPE. 7. [. [crack and rope.] fellow that deferves hanging Cra‘cker. 7 /. [from crack. 1. A noify boafting fellow What cracker is this fame that deafs our ear With this abundance of fuperfluous breath S Shakefpeare's King Fobn 2. A quantity of gunpowder confined fo a to burft with great noife i The bladder, at its breaking, gave a great report, almoft like a cracker Boyle And when, for furious hafte to run They dutft not flay to fire a gun Have done 't with bonfires, and at hom Made fquibs and ¢rackers overcome Vou, Drives rattling o'er a brazen arch With fquibs and crackers arm'd, to thro Among the trembling crowd below Zo CRA'CKLE w. 7 [fro crack. Swift 'T make flight cracks ; to make {mall an frequent noifes; to decrepitate Hudibras Are but 3s ice which crackles at a thaw Donne I fear to try new love As boys to venture on the unknown ic That crackles underneath them Dryden Caught her difhevell'd hair and rich attire Her crown and jewels crackled in the fire Dryden's Aneid Marrow. is a fpecifick in that fcurvy which occafions a crackling of the bones; in which caf marrow performs its natural funéion of moiften ing them Arbuthnot on Aliments Cra'cknNEvr brittle cake . /0 [from crack. A har Albee my love he feek with daily fute And call mine Percy, his Plantagenet Then would I have his Harry, and he mine, Shak CRAFT. #. /. [cpzpe, Sax Welfh. 1. Manual art; trade His kids, his cracfnels, and his eatly fruit, Spenfer Pay tributary cracknels, which he fells And with our offerings help to raife his vails Dryden's Fuvenal CRADLE. . /. [cpabdel, Saxon. 1. A moveable bed, on which children o fick perfons are agitated with a fmoot and equal motion, to make them fleep She had indeed, Sir, a fon for her cradle, ere th Shakefps King Lear No jutting frieze Buttrice, nor coigne of vantage, but this bir I hear an objeétion, even from fome well-meaning men, that thefe delightful crafrs may be diver ways ill applied in a land Wotton's Architeéture 2. Art {kil 3. Fraud; cunning ; artifice Th' offence is holy that the hath committed And this deceit lofes th name of craft Of difobedience, or undutcous title. ~ Shakefpearc This gives us a full view of wonderful art an craft in raifing fuch a ftruékure of power and. ini 4. Small failing veffels Zo CrarT. w. n [from the noun.] To play tricks; to pradtife artifice. No out of ufe You >ve made fair hands You and your crafts | You've crafted fair Shakefpeare's Coriolanus Cra‘FriLY. adv. [from crafty.] Cunaningly; artfully ; with more art tha honefty z. It is ufed for infancy, or the firft par of life th Chriftians perfuade an Solyma had and therefore wholly trained the up, eve fro their cradles, in arms and military exercifes Spenfer's Ireland The new duke's daughter, her coufin, love her; being ever, from their cradles, bred together Shakefpeare's As you like i They fhould fcarcely depart from a form o worfhip, in which they had been educated fro their cradle Clarendon A cafe for a broke bone, to keep off preflure 4. [With thipwrights.] A frame of timbe raifed along the outfide of a fhip by th fecurely an com modioufly to help to launch her. . Harris 70 CrA'DLE. @. 4. [from the fubftantive. To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle He that hath been cradled in majefty, will no leave the throne to play with beggars Glanville's Apollonius The tears fteal from our eyes, when in the firee With fome betrothed virgin's hetfe we meet Or infant's fun'ral, from the cheated wom Convey'd to earth, and cradled in a tomb. Dryden He 1hall be ¢cradled in my ancient fhield, {o fa mous through the univerfities. ArbuzbnotandPope 7. / [ from cradl and clothes.] Bed-clothes belonging t wa caufe for tha in han to tak th Knolles unfortupate Perfian war May he not craftily infe The rules of friendfhip too fevere ‘Which chain him to a hated truft Which make him wretched to be juft Prior Cra'Friness. #./. [from crafty. ning ; ftratagem Cun He taketh the wife in their own craftinefs. Fob Cra‘Frsman # /. [craft and man. A artificer 3 a manufaurer ; a mechanick That her became, as polifh'd ivory Which cunning craftfmar's hand hath overlai With fair vermillion He knew them to be inclined altogether to war a cradle moft impaired his credit the common report that he did, in all things, facraftil Pope Ayliffe But that whic Spenfer What reverence he did throw away on flaves Wooing poor crafifmen with the craft of {miles Shake[peare What a refemblance this advice carries to th oration of Demetrius to his fellow craftfmen Decay of Piety CRA'FTSMASTER. 7. /. [craft and mafler. A man fkilled in his trade He is no his craftfmafter h right dot no d i Sbakq/'peare There is art in pride: a man might as foo learn a trade Thofe who were not brought up t it, feldom prove their craftfmafier. Collicr on Pride Cra‘rrY adj [from craft. Cunning artful; full of artifices ; fraudulent; ly Nay, you may think my love was crafry love And call it cunning Shakefpeare's King Fobn This oppreflion did, of force and neceflity make the Irith a crafty people; for fuch as are op prefied, and live in flavery, are ever put to thei ihifts Dawies on Ireland Before he came in fight, the crafty go His wings difmifs'd, but ftill retain'd his rod Dryder No body was ever fo.cunning as to conceal thei being fo; and every body js thy and diftruftful o crafty men Locke CRAG ./ 1. Crag is, in Britifh, a reugh fteep rock and is ufed in the fame fenfe in th northern counties at this day Gidjon 3 _____ it!blf(o Ben Fonfor the work. Shakefpeare His birth, perhaps, fome paltry village hides And fets his cradle out of fortune's way. Dryden A chiid knows his nurfe and his cradle, and b degrees the playthings of a little more advance age Locke The cradfe and the tomb, alas, fo nigh To live is fcarce diftinguifh'd from to die. Prior Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of repofing age With lenient arts extend a mother's breath Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death CRADLE-CLOTHES of the poet; poefy is hi or craft of making, gt the very fiio vou bulge, ferving mor ability; dexterity A poem is the wor Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle 3. [With furgeons. creft, in-ol quity His clownifh gifts and curtefies I difdain had a hufband for her bed That forme night-tripping fairy had exchang'd In cradle-cloaths, our children, where they lay All thefe motions, which we faw The charaéters of all the lying verfe, Dryd. Fuwv And wits are crack'd to find out why. O could it be prov' Then furlous he begins his marel O, madam, my heart is crack'd, 1t's eack'd CR 2. Th |