A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.
To haunt, or enter by, crannies. All tenantless, save to the cranning wind. Byron.
Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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