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.