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ally two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. A sudden couplet rushes on your mind. Crabbe.

versing crane (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or foundry. -- Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with w…

A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.

A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.

The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand. Crabb.

The first stomach of ruminating beasts. Crabb. To chew the cud, to ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories. Chewed the thrice turned cudof wrath. Tennyson.

wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to rating of them as if they were dogs. Bunyan. Cudgel play, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels. -- To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; -- a phrase borrowed from the prac…

Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.

Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] Shak.

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. Prynne.

A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively.

The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.

ell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon. But still on their ancient joys dilate. Crabbe.

empt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings. Diogenes' crab (Zoöl.), a species of terrestrial hermit crabs (Cenobita Diogenes), abundant in the West Indies and often destructive to crops. -- Diogenes' tub, the tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him…

The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Obs.] Crabb.

ending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon. [Obs.] "Dracontic month." Crabb.

A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.

The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.