velvet swimming crab

Zool.: Portunus puber ; a small crab with a hairy carapace, armed in front with ten or more spines. Claws and four pairs of simple legs clothed with a dense pile of fur. General color brown, longitudinal ridges in the joints of the limbs blue. Called also the Velvet Fiddler-crab. velvet-tree, s. Puddling : The point where the draught from the neck of the furnace is turned upward into the stack. *věl-vět, v. i. & t. [VELVET, 8. ] A. In trans.: To paint velvet. "Verditure is the palest green that is, but good to velvet upon black in any drapery."-Peacham: On Drawing. B. Trans.: To cover with velvet; to cause to resemble velvet.