She would weep and he would craze. --Keats.
2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his
Jean dressed genteelly. --Prof.
Wilson.
3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new
amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze;
the [ae]sthetic craze.
Various crazes concerning health and disease. --W.
Pater.
God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And
craze their chariot wheels. --Milton.
2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]
Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze
my limbs. --Milton.
3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits.
--Tilloston.
Grief hath crazed my wits. --Shak.