{ } v. t. [ Pref. a- + crase; or cf. F. écraser to crush. See Crase, Craze. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To craze. [ Obs. ] Grafton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impair; to destroy. [ Obs. ] Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Brazed p. pr. & vb. n. Brazing. ] [ F. braser to solder, fr. Icel. brasa to harden by fire. Cf. Brass. ] 1. To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To harden. “Now I am brazes to it.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. bræsian, fr. bræs brass. See Brass. ] To cover or ornament with brass. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.[ OE. brasen, AS. bræsen. See Brass. ] 1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. --
Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brazened p. pr. & vb. n. Brazening. ] To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An impudent or shameless person. “Well said, brazenface; hold it out.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impudent; shameless. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bold, impudent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being brazen. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crazed p. pr. & vb. n. Crazing. ] [ OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, slå i kras, to break to pieces, F. écraser to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash. ] 1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase. [ 1913 Webster ]

God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till length of years,
And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits. Tilloston. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grief hath crazed my wits. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. [ 1913 Webster ]

She would weep and he would craze. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Craziness; insanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was quite a craze with him [ Burns ] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze. [ 1913 Webster ]

Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ See 1st Craze. ] A mill for grinding tin ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dross, Drossel. ] A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [ Obs. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Grazed p. pr. & vb. n. Grazing. ] [ OE. grasen, AS. grasian, fr. græs grass. See Grass. ] 1. To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. [ 1913 Webster ]

A field or two to graze his cows. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To yield grass for grazing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To touch something lightly in passing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of grazing; the cropping of grass. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Turning him out for a graze on the common. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A light touch; a slight scratch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cackling goose,
Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bear down with a brazen face; to surpass in impudence. T. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To obliterate. [ Obs. ] Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Race. ] A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Razed p. pr. & vb. n. Razing. ] [ F. raser. See Rase, v. t. ] [ Written also rase. ] 1. To erase; to efface; to obliterate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Razing the characters of your renown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See Demolish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slashed or striped in patterns. [ Obs. ] “Two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. vaisseau rasé, fr. raser to raze, to cut down ships. See Raze, v. t., Rase, v. t. ] (Naut.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Razeed p. pr. & vb. n. Razeeing. ] To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article. [ 1913 Webster ]