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Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.

Half-demented; half-witted. [Colloq.]

the breast as defensive armor. Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift.

Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.

t deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.

certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

nt (Testudinaria Elephantipes), which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also tortoise plant. The interior part is barely edible, whence the plant is also called Hottentot's bread. (b) A genus (Elephantopus) of coarse, composite weeds. -- Elephant's tusk (Zoöl.),…

ood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.

cially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits. Embden groats, crushed oats.

Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as kibed heels. Beau. & Fl.

Cracked; -- said of a treenail.

Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe.

Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt.

Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.