CRANK

A term vulgarly applied to a 11ers on of eccentric, ill-regulated, and unpractical mental habits; a person half-crazed; a monomaniac; not nece arily equivalent to "insane person," "lunatic," or any other term descriptive of complete mental derangement, and not carrying any implication of homicidal mania. Walker v. Tribune Co. (C. C.) 29 Fed. s;n. [s. 302]