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Illegal or prohobited traffic. Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke.

Traffic in contraband gods; smuggling.

One who traffic illegaly; a smuggler.

applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the cotrabass tuba or bombardon.

The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.

A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste. When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Shak.

See under Crab.

A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. Dunglison.

, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.

One who catches crabs.

The act or art of catching crabs.

Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker.

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

The cobia.

The water rat. Walton.

Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.

To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. Southey.

A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.

Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator.

The state of being curable; curableness.