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under Meadow. -- Spear hand, the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. Crabb. -- Spear side, the male line of a family. Lowell. -- Spear thistle (Bot.), the common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus).

for a casting, etc. Spider ant. (Zoöl.) Same as Solitary ant, under Solitary. -- Spider crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of maioid crabs having a more or less triangular body and ten long legs. Some of the species grow to great size, as the great Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira Kempferi), measuring sometim…

A cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore. Crabb.

To hold a quartile position respecting. The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales. Creech.

A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse. Crabb.

Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe.

The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.

pindle tree having crimson pods and the seeds covered with a scarlet aril. -- Strawberry crab (Zoöl.), a small European spider crab (Eurynome aspera); -- so called because the back is covered with pink tubercles. -- Strawberry fish (Zoöl.), the amadavat. -- Strawberry geranium (Bot.), a kind of saxifrage (Saxifraga…

in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [Eng.] Crabb.

Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look. "That surly spirit, melancholy." Shak.

An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses. Crabb.

g eyes. Swimming bell (Zoöl.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine crabs, as those of the family Protunidæ, which have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs flattened so as to serve as fins.

A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared. Crabb.

quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.

are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.

A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.

Crabbedness; perverseness. [Obs.]

A textualist; a textman. [Obs.] The crabbed textualists of his time. Milton.

One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.

The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).