" At the left of the table Genevieve Hassiebrock, with thirteen's crab-like silhouette of elbow, rigid plaits, and nose still hitched to the star of her nativity, wound an exceedingly long arm about Miss Hassiebrock's trim waist-line.

Yet trying all, he nothing knows; But, crab-like, rather backward goes.

Adj. deviating &c v.; aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like.

Regression N. regress, regression; retrocession^, retrogression, retrograduation^, retroaction; reculade^; retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration^; recession &c (motion from) 287; recess; crab-like motion.

Adj. receding &c v.; retrograde, retrogressive; regressive, refluent^, reflex, recidivous, resilient; crab-like; balky; reactionary &c 277.

The Italians themselves were merged in the slime of despairing satisfaction, and he watched them creeping, "crouching, and crab-like," along their streets.

Whatever sticklers for old forms and crab-like progress may be found, there is always an overbalancing power.

Her shoes turned up ludicrously at the toes, as do the shoes of one who crawls her way backward, crab-like, on hands and knees.

Openings appear between these floes and we slide crab-like from one to another with long delays between.

Twice whilst engaged in this task I had literally to lean against the wind with head bent and face averted and so stagger crab-like on my course.

Progress on the stage is often crab-like, and little parts, big parts, and no parts at all must be accepted as "all in the day's work.