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Webster 1913 Edition
Crazy
1.
Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
Piles of mean and
crazy
houses. Macaulay.
One of great riches, but a
crazy
constitution. Addison.
They . . . got a
crazy
boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey.
2.
Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
Over moist and
crazy
brains. Hudibras.
3.
Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.
[Colloq.]
The girls were
crazy
to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball.
Crazy bone
, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; – so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; – called also
– funny bone
. Crazy quilt
, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.
Webster 1828 Edition
Crazy
CRAZY
,Adj.
1.
Broken; decrepit; weak; feeble; applied to the body, or constitution, or any structure; as a crazy body; a crazy constitution; a crazy ship.2.
Broken, weakened, or disordered in intellect; deranged, weakened, or shattered in mind. We say, the man is crazy.