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One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.

An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]

ief priets and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark xiv. 1.

is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.

or's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43.

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

ess of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

ength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

creasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.

To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes. Like as the shining sky in summer's night, . . . Is crested with lines of fiery light. Spenser.

and punishment for a crime. -- Criminal conversation (Law), unlawful intercourse with a married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim. con. -- Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes.

One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. Marryat.

A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of irron, and used as a polishing powder. Crocus of Venus (Old Chem.), oxide of copper.