Crab"bish (krăb"b&ibreve;sh), a. Somewhat sour or cross.
The whips of the most crabbish Satyristes.
Decker.
Crab"by (-b&ybreve;), a. Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.
Crab"eat`er (krăb"ēt`&etilde;r), n. (Zo÷l.) (a) The cobia. (b) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). (c) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
Cra"ber (krā"b&etilde;r), n. (Zo÷l.) The water rat. Walton.
Crab"faced` (krăb"fāst`), a. Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau. & Fl.
Crab"si`dle (-sī`d'l), v. i. To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. Southey.
Crab"stick` (-st&ibreve;k`), n. A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
Crab" tree (trē`). See under Crab.
Crab"-yaws` (kr?b"y?z`), n. (Med.) A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws. Dunglison.
Crache (krăch), v. To scratch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Crack (krăk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked (krăkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, Creak.]
1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
O, madam, my old heart is cracked.
Shak.
He thought none poets till their brains were cracked.
Roscommon.