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Crab :: Crab (a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.

Surly :: Surly (a.) Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look..

Crab :: Crab (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.

Limulus :: Limulus (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot..

Macropod :: Macropod (n.) Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.

Cancroid :: Cancroid (a.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer..

Ocypodian :: Ocypodian (n.) One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name..

Scraber :: Scraber (n.) The black guillemot.

Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..

Cobia :: Cobia (n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish..

Bonito :: Bonito (n.) The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States..

Tetricity :: Tetricity (n.) Crabbedness; perverseness.

Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..

Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) The cobia.

Damnableness :: Damnableness (n.) The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.

Grimness :: Grimness (n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

Triangulares :: Triangulares (n. pl.) The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider..

Pomaceous :: Pomaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeae) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc..

Ill-tempered :: Ill-tempered (a.) Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

Horseman :: Horseman (n.) A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly..

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