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Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is 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..

Spakenet :: Spakenet (n.) A net for catching crabs.

Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.

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

Maia :: Maia (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado)..

Decapoda :: Decapoda (n. pl.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc..

Crab :: Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

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

Wherry :: Wherry (n.) A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.

Crab :: Crab (a.) Sour; rough; austere.

Decapod :: Decapod (n.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively..

Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree..

Thelphusian :: Thelphusian (n.) One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.

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..

Gnathastegite :: Gnathastegite (n.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs..

Crab :: Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc..

Megalops :: Megalops (n.) A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively..

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

Nipper :: Nipper (n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).

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