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applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. Stain or brack in her sweet reputation. J. Fletcher.

A brake or fern. Sir W. Scott.

A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.

A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.

in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. Byron.

The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.

Brackish. Drayton.

y used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.

See Carack.

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.

r towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]

An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]

Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

One who, or that which, cracks.

Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.

To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.

Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

See Crackle, n., 3.