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erboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious. Jonah crab (Zoöl.), a large crab (Cancer borealis) of the eastern coast of the United States, sometimes found between tides, but usually in deep water.

ryden. They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. Longfellow. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. Bacon.

ost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

luding some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.

or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

ht, or of winter. From you unclouded depth above. Keble. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5.

ood. More than sixscore thousand that cannot discern between their right hand their left. Jonah iv. 11.

The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)

The captain, master, or commander of a ship. Jonah i. 6.

isgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out. The fish . . . vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. Jonah ii. 10.