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Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.

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.

Madagascar (Cryptoprocta ferox). It resembles a cat in size and form, and has retractile claws.

A hand, paw, or claw. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. B. Jonson.

A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and crapnel.

An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing and holding fast to an object; a grab. (b) (Naut.)

A vulture; the griffin. [Obs.] Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws. Shak. Gripe's egg, an alchemist's vessel. [Obs.] E. Jonson.

stern North America and the Rocky Mountains. It is remarkable for the great length of its claws.

ter, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

the family Ardeidæ. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.

orned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.

To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet. Wright.

lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters. Lobster caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar o…

Having but one finger or claw.

Without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.

dermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.

what like a giraffe, except that the neck is much shorter. Like the giraffe, it has no dewclaws. There is a small prominence on each frontal bone of the male. The color of the body is chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with p…

The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.

like two combs. [R.] "Our fingers pectinated, or shut together." Sir T. Browne. Pectinate claw (Zoöl.), a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.

arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.