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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.

s, 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.

Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker. -- Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n. -- Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.

The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.

That can not be execrated enough. [R.]

A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper. Halliwell.

ratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way. Bunyan.

The Manx shearwater.

), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.