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Crabbed age and youth can not live
together.

Shak.

2. Characterized by harshness or
roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed
taste.

3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing;
trying; as, a crabbed author. "Crabbed
eloquence." Chaucer.

How charming is divine philosophy!

Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.

Milton.

4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed
handwriting.

-- Crab"bed*ly, adv. --
Crab"bed*ness, n.

Crab"ber (kr?b"b?r), n. One
who catches crabs.

Crab"bing, n. 1.
The act or art of catching crabs.

2. (Falconry) The fighting of
hawks with each other.

3. (Woolen Manuf.) A process of
scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.

Crab"bish (krăb"b&ibreve;sh),
a.


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