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A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

Cheering; enlivening. He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope.

To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.

Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." Shak.

e above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost. The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst. Zech. xiv. 4.

A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock. Is. ii. 21.

A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. [Obs.]

A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

To play the thief; to steal. [Cant] But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius. Marston.

A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

A boast. See Crack, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. Crane fly (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect with long legs, of the genus Tipula. -- Derrick crane. See Derrick. -- Gigantic crane. (Zoöl.) See Adjutant, n., 3. -- Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane (Mach.)…

To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.

To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] "The pot was crased." Chaucer.

A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. [Obs.] Begin from first where He encradled was, In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay. Spenser. Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.

To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling. Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.