(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.
(n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
(a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
(a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
(a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
(a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
(a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
(a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
(v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
(v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
(v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
(a.) Sour; rough; austere.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(2) King crabs (Family Lithodidae) are among the world's largest arthropods, having a crab-like morphology and a strongly calcified exoskeleton.
(3) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
(4) In a second series, crabs were repeatedly exposed during training to a light pulse (CS) immediately followed by shock (UCS), and after a 6-h rest interval, tested with either CS-UCS or UCS.
(5) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
(6) These findings provide ultrastructural correlates of the electrophysiological changes produced by glycerol treatment of the closer muscle of the ghost crab (Papir, 1973), namely, interference with excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling.
(7) A clottable protein, named coagulogen, was highly purified from the amoebocyte lysate of Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) by a method similar to that used for the lysate of Limulus polyphemus amoebocytes.
(8) The carbon dioxide solubility coefficient, alphaCO2, and the apparent carbonic acid dissociation constants, K'1 and K'2 were estimated in the serum of the crab Carcinus maenas at various temperatures and ionic strengths.
(9) Two forms of cytochrome P-450 (P-450MC1 and P-450MC2) were purified from liver microsomes of crab-eating monkeys (Macaca irus) treated with 3-methylcholanthrene (MC).
(10) Electrical activity recorded intracellularly from peptidergic neurosecretory terminal dilatations in the sinus gland of crabs (principally Cardisoma guanhumi and C. carnifex) is described.
(11) Isolated muscle fibers from the motor legs of the crab Trichodactilus dilocarcinus were submitted to strong hyperpolarizing currents of varied intensities which produced tension during the current pulse.
(12) The amino acid sequence of troponin C obtained from horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, striated muscle was determined by sequence analysis and alignments of chemically and enzymatically cleaved peptides.
(13) C.subimmaculatus was closely associated with a particular substrate and the presence of burrowing crabs.
(14) Our studies in crab-eating macaques indicate that presence in a mother's serum of potent antibodies reactive for red cells for her fetus will not necessarily cause erythroblastosis; in one case the maternal antibodies did not penetrate the placental barrier, and in two cases although the fetal red cells were maximally antibody-coated, they remained undamaged and the disease failed to develop.
(15) A 40-day adaptation of crabs to the freshened sea water results in an increase of maximal activity of Na,K-ATPase, but does not affect the enzyme affinity for ATP, Na+, K+, Mg2+ and ouabain, as well as its cooperative properties.
(16) When crab meat was ingested, none of these four arsenic species were observed at elevated levels until the urine was heated in 2N NaOH.
(17) Clots were allowed to form in samples of whole blood taken from the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the absence and presence of dansylcadaverine (16), and were analyzed for their contents of N epsilon(gamma-glutamyl)lysine and gamma-glutamyl-dansylcadaverine.
(18) The experiments were performed on in vitro X-organ sinus gland neurosecretory systems from the eyestalk of the crab Cardisoma carnifex.
(19) On the upper reaches of the Cross River from the region around Mamfe and extending as far as the Nigerian fronter at Ekok, the crabs were infected exclusively with P. uterobilateralis.
(20) When the crabs Cancer antennarius and Petrolisthes cinctipes were in seawater (SW), amiloride (10(-4) M) reduced NH3 efflux by approximately 33 and 60%.
Cudgel
Definition:
(n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
(v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the project was neither “a silver bullet for the economy” nor “an express lane to climate disaster”, and said it was time for both sides to stop using the argument over Keystone as a political cudgel.
(2) The result of the French election shows that François Hollande is now being expected to take up the cudgels.
(3) The cause of the injury was broken glass--4, cudgel--4, industrial metal--1, unknown--1.
(4) Their fans took up cudgels on either side, though the deepest desire was for the rivals to appear together.
(5) But the rise of the Islamic State (Isis), the terrorist attack in Paris and a Republican-led Congress increasingly willing to use those phenomena as a cudgel against privacy advocates have complicated congressional attitudes to mass surveillance.
(6) Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard take up cudgels again in ABC documentary Read more Garrett says in the book that supporting Rudd in light of his “trail of destruction and abandoned policy” was his biggest mistake in nearly 10 years in parliament.
(7) Except that, in Loznitsa's version, the wizard is a disgraced former soldier, the siren a child prostitute and the trolls a trio of gnarled brigands who cook potatoes at a forest campfire and cudgel anyone who draws too close.
(8) No one escaped his cudgel as he scored all round the ground, cutting, pulling, driving and, well, just belting the daylights out of the ball, with 17 fours and two sixes.
(9) But they, along with President Obama and gun control campaigners and pressure groups, will now attempt to wield this failure as a cudgel against incumbent, no-voting senators through the next election, hoping to bring about a more favorable climate in 2015.
(10) But some other MPs believe Abbott will actually consolidate his position after the dramas of the week because the various alternatives to the prime minister have now picked up the cudgels against one another.
(11) The jut of beard, the ringed fingers, the walking stick one feels he could use as a wand or a cudgel at any moment: he looks like Hagrid's wayward brother or Gandalf's louche cousin.
(12) But the pinpricks tiny sites can inflict on a target do not begin to match the cudgel blows the mass media of the 20th century could deliver.
(13) Four states voted on the question of gay marriage last Tuesday, and in each the pro-marriage equality side won, suggesting that an issue which eight years ago served as a cudgel for Republicans to push so-called "cultural" voters to the polls is no longer a political asset.
(14) Will of the people!”: we hear it from Labour too (though not its former leader, in his latest estimable effort ), less democratic than fascistic, cudgel for anyone who dares suggest we betray not just Britain – never mind Ireland – but Europe and internationalism.
(15) His successor, Dame Sally Davies, took up the cudgels in 2013, with David Cameron calling for global action the following year.
(16) Professor Goldworth takes up the cudgels in defence of the contemporary moral philosopher, who, he says, should indeed have a role in helping doctors to make clinical decisions based on philosophical theory; Mr. Thompson in his reply says that Professor Goldworth has misinterpreted his earlier argument.
(17) In any case, she expresses no desire to lay down the cudgels and become a confidante.
(18) A number of backbenchers, including the Liberal Democrat elder statesman Sir Menzies Campbell, took up the cudgels.
(19) Religious freedom “is now predominantly used by religious majorities as a cudgel to undermine our existing civil rights law”, Talbot said.
(20) He told CNN that Page was "a very kind, very smart individual" but even then had taken up the white supremacist cudgel.