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CRAB, n. [Gr. L.]

1 A crustaceous fish, the cray-fish, Cancer, a genus containing numerous species. They have usually ten feet, two of which are furnished with claws; two eyes, pedunculated, elongated and movable. To this genus belong the lobster, the shrimp, &c.

2. A wild apple, or the tree producing it; so named from its rough taste.

3. A peevish morose person.

4. A wooden engine with three claws for launching ships and heaving them into the dock.

5. A pillar used sometimes for the same purpose as a capstan.

6. Cancer, a sign in the zodiac.

Crabs claws, in the materia medica, the tips of the claws of the common crab; used as absorbents.

Crabs eyes, in pharmacy, concretions formed in the stomach of the cray-fish. They are rounded on one side, and depressed and sinuated on the other, considerably heavy, moderately hard, and without smell. They are absorbent, discussive and diuretic.

Crab-lice, small insects that stick fast to the skin.

CRAB, a. Sour; rough; austere.

1913 Definition
Crab (crab)
n.(kr1913 webster dictionaryb)
Crab
[AS. crabba; akin to D. krab, G. krabbe, krebs, Icel. krabbi, Sw. krabba, Dan. krabbe, and perh. to E. cramp. Cf. Crawfish.]
  1. 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.

    * The name is applied to all the Brachyura, and to certain Anomura, as the hermit crabs. Formerly, it was sometimes applied to Crustacea in general. Many species are edible, the blue crab of the Atlantic coast being one of the most esteemed. The large European edible crab is Cancer padurus. Soft-shelled crabs are blue crabs that have recently cast their shells. See Cancer; also, Box crab, Fiddler crab, Hermit crab, Spider crab, etc., under Box, Fiddler. etc.

  2. The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
  3. A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.

    When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
    Then nightly sings the staring owl.
    Shak.

  4. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
    [Obs.] Garrick.
  5. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
    (b)
  6. To make sour or morose; to embitter.
    [Obs.]

    Sickness sours or crabs our nature.
    Glanvill.

  7. To beat with a crabstick.
    [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
  8. To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
    Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  9. Sour; rough; austere.

    The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast.
    Dryden.

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