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Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. Shak. -- Ac*curs"ed*ly, adv. -- Ac*curs"ed*ness, n.

The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb.

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

usbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

Approval; approbation. [Obs.] Crabbe.

Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb.

A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.

se no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness. "Asperity of character." Landor. It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [R.] Crabb.

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb.

ecies (Ægoceras leucophæus); the blaubok. -- Blue cod (Zoöl.), the buffalo cod. -- Blue crab (Zoöl.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus). -- Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant (Trichostema dichotomum), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroya…

The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.

To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; Crabb.