3. Difficulty, perplexity, intractability.

Crab-grass, n. Wire-grass, dog’s-tail grass (Eleusine Indica).

Crack, n.

    1. Break, cleft, breach, chink, fissure, crevice, cranny, opening, rift, rent.
    2. Report, clap, pop, burst, explosion.
    3. Snap (of a whip).

Crack, v. a.

    1. Break (partially).
    2. Split, chop, cleave, rend asunder.
    3. Snap (as a whip).
    4. Craze, drive insane, madden.

Crack, v. n.

    1. Break, split, burst, chap, open in chinks.
    2. [With of.] Brag, bluster, vapor, vaunt, boast, gasconade, crow.

Crack, a. (Colloq.) Excellent, capital, tiptop, first-rate, first-class.

Crack-brained, a. Crazy, cracked, insane, crazed.

Cracked, a.

    1. Broken, split.
    2. Crazed, crazy, crack-brained, insane, demented, deranged, flighty, with a bee in the bonnet, with a bee in the head.

Cracker, n.

    1. Hard biscuit.
    2. Fire-cracker.

  By PanEris using Melati.

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