▪ I. crazing, vbl. n.
(ˈkreɪzɪŋ)
[f. craze v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb craze; crushing, bruising, cracking, etc. (lit. and fig.); spec. of tin ore, and of pottery (craze v. 2, 3 b).
| 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 58 b, To kepe the rule of holy obedyence, hole and sounde, without crasynge or brusynge. a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1662) 195 In Stamping, Drying, Crazing and Melting. 1832 G. R. Porter Porcelain & Gl. 30 Crazing is a technical phrase, used to denote the cracking of the glaze. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 207/2 Craze or crazing, the minute hair cracks which sometimes appear on the surface of pre-cast concrete work or of artificial stone.—Fissuring of faulty coats of paint or varnish in irregular criss-cross cracks. 1951 H. M. Langton Morrell's Synth. Resins (ed. 3) v. 211 A defect of polystyrene is a tendency for mouldings and castings to develop fine cracks—known as ‘crazing’. 1954 Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 29 Crazing, the cracking of a surface layer into small irregularly shaped contiguous areas. 1961 J. N. Anderson Dental Materials (ed. 2) xxiii. 242 Crazing appears when a denture has been repeatedly dried out..due to the alternate expansion and contraction of the resin. |
† 2. concr. A crack, cleft, chink. Obs.
| 1388 Wyclif Obad. i. 3 Dwellynge in crasyngis of stoonys. 1398 Trevisa Barth. de P.R. xvii. cxxiii. (Tollem. MS.), Chynes and crasyng of schippes beþ stoppid þer wiþ. |
3. crazing-mill, a mill for crushing tin ore.
| 1602 Carew Cornwall 12 a, From the stamping mill it [the Tin] passeth to the crazing mil, which..bruseth the same to a fine sand. 1884 R. Hunt Brit. Mining 65 The tin miner..took them to the crazing-mill. |
▪ II. ˈcrazing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That crazes: see the verb.
| 1818 Milman Samor 241 The form winds could not bow Nor crazing tempests. |