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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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15 words match “CRAZY”

CRAZY a. 3 definitions
eakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.
BEAT v.
, and waves do. Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. Dryden. They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. Longfellow. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. Bacon.
BEE n.
[Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.
CRACK n.
A crazy or crack-brained person. [Obs.] I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector. Addison.
CRACK-BRAINED a.
Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
CRAZILY adv.
In a crazy manner.
DELIRAMENT n.
A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy. [Obs.] Heywood.
DERANGED a.
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
FUNNY a.
Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.
HORN-MAD a.
Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.
LUNE n.
A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. [Obs.] These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. Shak.
LUNY a.
Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also loony.] [Law, U.S.]
MAD a.
Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad. Shak.
MADMAN n.
A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person. When a man mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined. Coleridge.
WILD a.
ngoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy. "Valor grown wild by pride." Prior. "A wild, speculative project." Swift. What are these So withered and so wild in their attire Shak. With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven. Milton. The wil…