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{ ‖ n. [ Gr. akrasia. ] Excess; intemperance. [ Obs. except in Med. ] Farindon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. [ Pref. a- + crase; or cf. F. écraser to crush. See Crase, Craze. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To craze. [ Obs. ] Grafton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impair; to destroy. [ Obs. ] Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Craze. ] To break in pieces; to crack. [ Obs. ] “The pot was crased.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crashed p. pr. & vb. n. Crashing. ] [ OE. crashen, the same word as crasen to break, E. craze. See Craze. ] To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise; as, the stock market crash of 1929. [ 1913 Webster ]

The last week of October 1929 remains forever imprinted in the American memory. It was, of course, the week of the Great Crash, the stock market collapse that signaled the collapse of the world economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s. From an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a level of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of traumatic selling waves, to 230 in the course of the following six trading days.
The stock market's drop was far from over; it continued its sickening slide for nearly three more years, reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932. But it was that last week of October 1929 that burned itself into the American consciousness. After a decade of unprecedented boom and prosperity, there suddenly was panic, fear, a yawning gap in the American fabric. The party was over. Wall street Journal, October 28, 1977. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. crassus coarse. See Crass. ] Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. to descend steeply and rapidly; -- of aircraft. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL., temperament, fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to mix. ] 1. (Med.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synæresis; as, cogo for coago. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to be bordered or edged. ] (Zool.) The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Craspedota. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven. See Grease animal fat, and cf. Crate, Hurdle. ] Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. “Crass and fumid exhalations.” Sir. T. Browne. “Crass ignorance” Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. crassamentum, fr. crassare to make thick. See Crass, a. ] A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Crassament. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. crassitudo. ] Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Grossness. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. crastinus of to-morrow, from cras to-morrow. ] Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. dyscrasia, fr. Gr. dyskrasi`a; dys- bad + kra^sis mixture, fr. keranny`nai to mix: cf. F. dycrasie. ] (Med.) An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bad + &unr_; compound. ] (Min.) A mineral consisting of antimony and silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Discrasies Dycrasia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sin is a cause of dycrasies and distempers. Jer. Taylor.

‖n. [ F. ] (Surg.) The operation performed with an écraseur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. écraser to crush. ] (Surg.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, well-tempered; e'y^ well + &unr_; to mix, temper: cf. F. eucrasie. ] (Med.) Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness. Quincy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enter uninvited into a party or other social event.
Syn. -- intrude, barge in, crash, gate-crash, irrupt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. A person who enters into a party or other social event without an invitation, or into a theater or other public performance without a ticket. [ PJC ]

adj. entering a gathering uninvited; as, gate-crashing guests disrupted the party. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. hippocras, hypocras, NL. vinum hippocraticum, lit., wine of Hippocrates. ] A cordial made of spiced wine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] Idiocracy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Idiocrasies [ Idio- + Gr. kra^sis a mixture, fr. &unr_; to mix: cf. F. idiocrasie. ] Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.

n.; pl. Idiosyncrasies [ Gr. &unr_;; 'i`dios proper, peculiar + &unr_; a mixing together, fr. &unr_; to mix together; &unr_; with + &unr_; to mix: cf. F. idiosyncrasie. See Idiom, and Crasis. ] A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the idiosyncrasies of the body. I. Taylor.

n. [ Gr. e'i^dos form + kra^sis mixture, from keranny`nai to mix; cf. F. idocrase. ] (Min.) Same as Vesuvianite. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incrassated p. pr. & vb. n. Incrassating. ] [ L. incrassatus, p. p. of incrassare; pref. in- in + crassus thick. ] To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become thick or thicker.

{ } a. [ L. incrassatus, p. p. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Thickened; becoming thicker. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennæ of certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incrassation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hippocras. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. mikro`s small + &unr_; star. ] (Paleon.) A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Procrastinated p. pr. & vb. n. Procrastinating. ] [ L. procrastinatus, p. p. of procrastinare to procrastinate; pro forward + crastinus of to-morrow, fr. cras to-morrow. ] To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hopeless and helpless Aegeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; retard; protract; prolong. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To delay; to be dilatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. procrastinatio: cf. F. procrastination. ] The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Procrastination is the thief of time. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who procrastinates, or defers the performance of anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to procrastination; dilatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To procrastinate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From a native name in India. ] (Zool.) See Koklass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; union of the soul with God; &unr_; God + &unr_; a mixing, akin to &unr_; to mix. ] 1. A mixture of the worship of different gods, as of Jehovah and idols. [ 1913 Webster ]

This syncretistic theocracy by no means excludes in him [ Solomon ] the proper service of idols. J. Murphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philos.) An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics. [ 1913 Webster ]