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Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

A flatterer or sycophant. [Obs.] "Take heed of these clawbacks." Latimer.

Furnished with claws. N. Grew.

Destitute of claws.

To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse. [Obs.] Birch.

To fight and scratch. C. Smart.

In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground. Some cut off the dewclaws [of greyhounds]. J. H. Walsh.

A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

w Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

s Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.…

pilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain.

er of the Revolutionary war. Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw, man. Burns.

called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term it now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.

The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.

Having cheliform claws, like a crab.

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