a glandular disease, unfortunately of comparatively too frequent occurrence. It appears as a roundish, hard, unequal, schirrous tumour, which usually ulcerates, is attended with much pain, and generally terminates fatally.

in Astronomy, one of the twelve signs, represented on the globe in the form of a crab, and in books marked... The reason generally assigned for its name, as well as figure, is a supposed resemblance which the sun's motion in this sign bears to that of the crab-fish. As the latter walks backwards, so the former, in this part of his course, begins to recede; though others suppose the disposition of stars in this sign to have given the first hint of the representation of a crab.

Tropic of Cancer, in Astronomy, a lesser circle of the sphere, parallel to the equator, and passing through the beginning of the sign Cancer.