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.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• DIFFICULTLY
  With difficulty. Cowper.
• 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.