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Word Meanings - CRABBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.

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  • CRABBER
    One who catches crabs.
  • CRABBISH
    Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker.
  • PERPLEX
    1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
  • CRABBING
    The foghting of hawks with each other. (more info) 1. The act or art of catching crabs.
  • DIFFICULT
    1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous. Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call
  • PERPLEXLY
    Perplexedly. Milton.
  • DIFFICULTY
    difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
  • CRABBED
    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;
  • ANCIENTNESS
    The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
  • DIFFICULTLY
    With difficulty. Cowper.
  • ANCIENTLY
    1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
  • DIFFICULTATE
    To render difficult; to difficilitate. Cotgrave.
  • PERPLEXED
    Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled; doubtful; anxious. -- Per*plex"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*plex"ed*ness, n.
  • CRABBY
    Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.
  • BECAUSE
    1. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton. 2. In order that; that. And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. Because of, by reason of, on account of. Because of these
  • PERPLEXIVENESS
    The quality of being perplexing; tendency to perplex. Dr. H. More.
  • PERPLEXING
    Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome. "Perplexing thoughts." Milton.
  • ANCIENTRY
    1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
  • DIFFICULTNESS
    Difficulty. Golding.
  • PERPLEXITY
    The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.
  • UNPERPLEX
    To free from perplexity. Donne.
  • SCRABBLE
    1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his
  • SCRABBED EGGS
    A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper. Halliwell.

 

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