Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Snatched away; hence, seized or possessed; frantic; crack-brained; mad.
  • Creeping or having crept in privily. Blount; Bailey.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained.

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