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Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. 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 rece…

Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.

Characterized by crudeness; raw. [Obs.] The foolish and dull and crudy vapors. Shak.

To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy. [Scot.] Jamieson.

h, or character; to degenerate. [R.] You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate. Shak. Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line Hazlitt.

Foolish; silly; trifling. [R.]

To behave foolishly. [Obs.]

Foolish utterance; drivel. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton.

Foolish; weak. Dr. H. More.

To act foolishly. [Obs.] He wol make him doten anon right. Chaucer.

Stupid; foolish. [Obs.] Senseless speech and doted ignorance. Spenser.

Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.

believed to imitate the movements of the fowler. In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures. Bacon.

To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden.

e: To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably. -- Lame duck. See under Lame.

th confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud. Foolishly elated by spiritual pride. Warburton. You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Mysterious; also, foolish. [Obs.]

ved in place of the thing as, to exchange a palace for cell. And death for life exchanged foolishly. Spenser. To shift his being Is to exchange one misery with another. Shak.

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.