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 (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer. |
Crab (a.) A crab apple |
Crab (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree |
Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc. |
Crab (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc. |
Crab (a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn. |
Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine. |
Crab (v. t.) To make sour or morose |
Crab (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick. |
Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. |
Crab (a.) Sour |
Crab tree () See under Crab. |
Crab-yaws (n.) A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. |
Double (a.) Twofold |
Double (a.) Being in pairs |
Double (a.) Divided into two |
Double (a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double. |
Double (adv.) Twice |
Double (a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like |
Double (a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle |
Double (a.) To be the double of |
Double (a.) To pass around or by |
Double (a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two. |
Double (v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value |
Double (v. i.) To return upon one's track |
Double (v. i.) To play tricks |
Double (v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake |
Double (n.) Twice as much |
Double (n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.) |
Double (n.) That which is doubled over or together |
Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues |
Double (n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another |
Double (n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence |
Double (n.) Double beer |
Double (n.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts. |
Double (n.) A game between two pairs of players |
Double (n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites. |
Double-acting (a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions |
Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. |
Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart. |
Double-barreled (a.) Alt. of -barrelled |
Double-beat valve () See under Valve. |
Double-breasted (a.) Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side |
Double-charge (v. t.) To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. |
Double-charge (v. t.) To overcharge. |
Double dealer () One who practices double dealing |
Double dealing () False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing. |
Double-decker (n.) A man-of-war having two gun decks. |
Double-decker (n.) A public conveyance, as a street car, with seats on the roof. |
double fault | (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point |
double stopping | stopping two strings and producing two notes at the same time |
line-drive double line double | a double resulting from a line drive |
double two-base hit two-bagger two-baser | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base, he hit a double to deep centerfield |
double-blind procedure double-blind experiment double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
double leg circle | a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast (with legs together) swings his legs in a circle while alternating hands on the pommels |
crab | a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply, he caught a crab and lost the race |
twin bill doubleheader double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
double dribble | an illegal dribble in basketball (the player uses both hands to dribble or the player starts to dribble a second time after coming to a stop) |
double Dutch | the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners |
daily double | a single bet on two horse races in the same day |
double reverse | (American football) a running play in which a first reverse is followed by a second reverse |
double play | the act of getting two players out on one play |
double entry double-entry bookkeeping | bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another |
double cross doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
duplicity double-dealing | acting in bad faith, deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another |
double blind | a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed, designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results |
doubling double | raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of , I decided his double was a bluff |
double take | a delayed reaction indicating surprise |
rail technology railroading | the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads |
double jeopardy | the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried, prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution |
horseshoe crab king crab Limulus polyphemus Xiphosurus polyphemus | large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail, a living fossil related to the wood louse |
Asian horseshoe crab | horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia |
crab-eating opossum | South American opossum |
crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers |
stone crab Menippe mercenaria | large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) |
hard-shell crab | edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell |
soft-shell crab soft-shelled crab | edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell |
Dungeness crab Cancer magister | small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America |
rock crab Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
Jonah crab Cancer borealis | large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America |
swimming crab | marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming |
English lady crab Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
American lady crab lady crab calico crab Ovalipes ocellatus | brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
blue crab Callinectes sapidus | bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America |
fiddler crab | burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male |
pea crab | tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks |
oyster crab Pinnotheres ostreum | tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters |
king crab Alaska crab Alaskan king crab Alaska king crab Paralithodes camtschatica | large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan |
spider crab | any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies |
European spider crab king crab Maja squinado | a large spider crab of Europe |
giant crab Macrocheira kaempferi | very large deep-water Japanese crab |
hermit crab | small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods |
mantis shrimp mantis crab | tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages |
rail | any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud |
corncrake land rail Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
crabeater seal crab-eating seal | silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans |
crab-eating dog crab-eating fox Dusicyon cancrivorus | wild dog of northern South America |
crab louse pubic louse crab Phthirius pubis | a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body |
crab-eating macaque croo monkey Macaca irus | monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines |