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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.

To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.

the brine which collects at the bottom. -- Brine shrimp, Brine worm (Zoöl.), a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia. -- Brine spring, a spring of salt water. -- Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in dry…

Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. "Her broken love and life." G. Eliot.

Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.

One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.

A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

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.

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. Drayson.

mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

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

ocess of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for the plates of voltaic batteries, etc.

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

A small war club, esp. of savages; -- so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull.

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.

The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.