Crack

1. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
3. To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
5. Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
6. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
7. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
8. Free conversation; friendly chat.
9. A crazy or crack-brained person.
10. Breach of chastity.
11. A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
12. A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
13. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
14. A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
15. A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
16. Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
17. A boast; boasting.
18. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
19. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
20. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
21. Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.