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A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe.

A place for boiling or preparating salt; a boilery. Crabb. And certain salt fats or bullaries. Bills in Chancery.

to free governments, and are raised by busy and turbulent spirits for selfish porposes". Crabb.

A cameo. [Obs.] Crabb.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.

Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.

The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

The depertment of zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.

self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. -- To cast off copy, (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a gi…

The cereals. Crabb.

Having cheliform claws, like a crab.

or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be ised for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. Crabb.

An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. [Obs.] Crabb.

The occupation of a cooper. Crabb.