{ } 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. 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 ]

adv. In a crazy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Craze, v. Hence: n. Fine cracks resulting from shrinkage on the surface of glazed pottery, concrete, or other material. The admired crackle in some Oriental potteries and porcelains is crazing produced in a foreseen and regulated way. In common pottery it is often the result of exposure to undue heat, and the beginning of disintegration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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

a. [ From Craze. ] 1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. [ 1913 Webster ]

Over moist and crazy brains. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. --
Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of several leguminous plants of Western North America causing locoism in livestock.
Syn. -- locoweed, crazy weed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]