CRAB
Crab (krb), v. t.
1. To make sour or morose; to embitter. [Obs.] Sickness sours or crabs our nature. Glanvill.
2. To beat with a crabstick. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
CRAB
Crab, v. i. (Naut.)
Defn: To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
CRAB
Crab, a. Etym: [Prob. from the same root as crab, n.]
Defn: Sour; rough; austere.
The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast. Dryden.
CRABBED
Crab"bed (krb"bd), a. Etym: [See Crab,n.]
1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; — applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.
2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; — applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.