Shrimp

1. v. Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; — in contempt.
2. v. t. To contract; to shrink.
3. v. Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda.
4. v. In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
5. v. In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.