† cracon Obs.
Also crauckond, crakan, craconum, krawkan, kraghen.
[Etymol. uncertain: perh. f. crack v. or F. craquer; cf. crawke in same sense.]
= crackling 3: cf. Du Cange s.v. Cremium.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter ci. 4 [cii. 3] Mi banes als krawkan dried þa [Lat. sicut in frixorium confrixa sum]. a 1340 Hampole Psalter ci. 4 My banys as kraghen dryed [v. rr. crauckond, cracon, brent grees, crakan]. c 1450 Medulla MS. (in Promp. Parv. 101) A craconum of grece or talwhe. 1483 Cath. Angl. 80 Crakan, cremium. |