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Cranny

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.

2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.] The ground did cranny everywhere. Golding.

2. To haunt, or enter by, crannies. All tenantless, save to the cranning wind. Byron.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Quick; giddy; thoughtless. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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