Middle English Dictionary Entry
crāsen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | crāsen v. Also craisen, crassen. |
| Etymology | OF crasir; ult. Gmc. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To shatter (sth.), crush, break to pieces; (b) to perforate (sth.); make (a hole); (c) to crack (sth.), fill with cracks; also, become cracked; (d) ppl. crasing as adj., liable to crack or craze.
Associated quotations
a
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2150 : Facez feteled vnfaire in filterede lakes, All craysed, fortrodyn with trapped stedez.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)1.70 : Thus was ȝoure croune crasid, till he was cast newe.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)7988 : The[y] crasse mayles thrugh þer caste.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)325 : Ther was many a grete spere crased.
b
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)52 : Thesbe perceyved the wall crassed, where throw she saw brygnes on the toþer side.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)324 : With glas Were al the wyndowes wel yglased, Ful clere, and nat an hoole ycrased.
c
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.934 : I am right siker that the pot was crased [vr. craised; rime: amased].
- a1425 Macaron.Serm.(Bod 649)3:298 (p.93) : Vitrea lampas est tuum fragile corpus quod est fragile vt vitrum: iam frangitur infirmitate, iam crasid molestia et in puncto pereundi cum omni temptacione.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2803 : With þe stroke..His basenet was bowed and ycrasid.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)5785 : The sheldes crased thoo somdele.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)190/601 : Take xij egges..and kepe heme fro breckynge þat þe shelles crase natt and that thei be ryght hard.
- a1500 Our shyp (Dub 516)p.327 : The shyp was charged with a mast; Crased it was, it my[ght] not last.
- c1500 PFulham (Trin-C R.3.19)p.128 : The cablys crasen [Jas: crake], and begynne to ffolde.
- a1525(?1447) Cov.Leet Bk.232 : Hit is ordeyned that no tyler frohensfurth ley no..crased tyle.
d
- a1450 *3 Inspect.Hematoscopy (Htrn 307)f.165v : Whan it engeliþ me schal biholde wheþer it be harsch or crassyng.
2.
To be diseased or deformed.
Associated quotations
- (?1474) Stonor1.150 : I am sumwhat crased, or elles I wold have seyn your maistershep.
- a1500(a1450) St.Robt.Knares.(Eg 3143)973 : Crased & croked, bath deiff and domme, War cured þat to hys toumbe wald comme.