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Shedder :: Shedder (n.) A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediately afterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the edible crabs, which are most prized while in this state..

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

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

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

Accurst :: Accurst (p. p. & a.) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed..

Fiddler :: Fiddler (n.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab..

Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.

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

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

Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc..

Shellfish :: Shellfish (n.) Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs..

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

Crabbed :: Crabbed (n.) Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners..

Urva :: Urva (n.) The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder..

Apron :: Apron (n.) The infolded abdomen of a crab.

Oxyrhyncha :: Oxyrhyncha (n. pl.) The maioid crabs.

Crab :: Crab (n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body..

Crab :: Crab (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

Crab :: Crab (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.

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