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- Crab - n. - One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
- Crab - n. - The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
- Crab - a. - A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
- Crab - a. - A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- Crab - a. - A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- Crab - a. - A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Crab - a. - A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- Crab - a. - A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- Crab - v. t. - To make sour or morose; to embitter.
- Crab - v. t. - To beat with a crabstick.
- Crab - v. i. - To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
- Crab - a. - Sour; rough; austere.
- Crab tree - - See under Crab.
- Crab-yaws - n. - A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.
- Crabbed - n. - Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
- Crabbed - n. - Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
- Crabbed - n. - Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
- Crabbed - n. - Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
- Crabber - n. - One who catches crabs.
- Crabbing - n. - The act or art of catching crabs.
- Crabbing - n. - The fighting of hawks with each other.
- Crabbing - n. - A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
- Crabbish - a. - Somewhat sour or cross.
- Crabby - a. - Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
- Crabeater - n. - The cobia.
- Thornback - n. - The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).
- Leucosoid - a. - Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa.
- Gecarcinian - n. - A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.
- Bonito - n. - The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.
- Shedder - n. - A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state.
- Crab - a. - A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- Anomoura - n. pl. - A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.
- Fiddler - n. - A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.
- Pinnothere - n. - A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster.
- Pyrus - n. - A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit. It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and mountain ash.
- Horseman - n. - A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly.
- Wilding - n. - A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant.
- Sentinel - n. - A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
- Crab - a. - A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
- Mygale - n. - A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).
- Maian - n. - Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.
- Louse - n. - Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
- Wherry - n. - A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.
- Verjuice - n. - The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.
- Drome - n. - The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.
- Mesobranchial - a. - Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.
- Plover - n. - Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.
- Austere - - Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
- Nipper - n. - A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
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- G1944 ἐπικατάρατος - 1944 ἐπικατάρατος - ἘΠΙΚΑΤΆΡΑΤΟΣ - - epikatáratos - ep-ee-kat-ar'-at-os - from ἐπί and a derivative of καταράομαι; imprecated, i.e. execrable:--accursed. - Adjective - greek
- H4610 מַעֲלֵה עַקְרַבִּים - 4610 מַעֲלֵה עַקְרַבִּים - מַעֲלֵה עַקְרַבִּים - - Maʻălêh ʻAqrabbîym - mah-al-ay' ak-rabbeem' - from מַעֲלֶה and (the plural of) עַקְרָב; Steep of Scorpions, a place in the Desert; Maaleh-accrabim, the ascent (going up) of Akrabbim. - Proper Name Location - x-pn
- H8427 תָּוָה - 8427 תָּוָה - תָּוָה - - tâvâh - taw-vaw' - a primitive root; to mark out, i.e. (primitive) scratch or (definite) imprint; scrabble, set (a mark). - Verb - heb
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- Joshua 6 15:3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
יָצָא נֶגֶב מַעֲלֵה עַקְרַבִּים עָבַר צִן עָלָה נֶגֶב קָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ עָבַר חֶצְרוֹן עָלָה אַדָּר סָבַב קַרְקַע - 1 Samuel 9 21:13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
שָׁנָה טַעַם עַיִן הָלַל יָד תָּוָה דֶּלֶת שַׁעַר רִיר יָרַד זָקָן