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crayse
crayse, craisey local. Also crazey, crazy. [Derivation unknown.] A rustic name of various species of Ranunculus or buttercup.c 1652 Roxb. Ball. (1873) I. 340 With milkmaids Hunney⁓suckle's phrase, The crow's-foot, nor the yellow crayse. 1789 Marshall Glocestersh. I. 178 Creeping crowfoot, provincial...
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craze
▪ I. craze, v. (kreɪz) Forms: 4–7 crase, 5– crayse, 6–7 craise, 6– craze. [A fuller form acrase, acraze, is known in 16th c.; if this existed earlier, the probability would be that crase was aphetic for acrase, and this a. OF. acraser, var. of écraser. The latter is supposed to be of Norse origin: c...
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crazy
▪ I. crazy, a. (ˈkreɪzɪ) Forms: 6–7 crasy, 6–8 crasie, (6 craesie), 7–8 crazie, 7– crazy. [f. craze v. or n. + -y.] 1. Full of cracks or flaws; damaged, impaired, unsound; liable to break or fall to pieces; frail, ‘shaky’. (Now usually of ships, buildings, etc.)1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 51 ...
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