Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCRAP'ED, pp.

Rubbed on the surface with a sharp or rough instrument; cleaned by rubbing; cleared away by scraping.

SCRAP'ER, n.

1. An instrument with which any thing is scraped; as, a scraper for shoes.
2. An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, and used for scraping earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, canals, &c.
3. An instrument having two or three sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts or decks of a ship, &c.
4. A miser; one who gathers property by penurious diligence and small savings; a scrape-penny.
5. An awkward fiddler.

SCRAP'ING, n.

That which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping, raking, or rubbing; as, the scrapings of the street.

SCRAP'ING, ppr.

Rubbing the surface with something sharp or hard; cleaning by a scraper; removing by rubbing; playing awkwardly on a violin.

SCRAT, n.

An hermaphrodite. [Not in use.] Skinner.

SCRAT, v.i.

To rake; to search. [Not in use.]

SCRAT, v.t. [formed on the root of L. rado.]

To scratch. [Not in use.] – Burton.

SCRATCH, n.

1. A rent; a break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with any thing pointed or ragged; as, a scratch on timber or glass. The coarse file … makes deep scratches in the work. – Moxon. These nails with scratches shall deform my breast. – Prior.
2. A slight wound. Heav'n forbid a shallow scratch should drive / The prince of Wales from such a field as this. – Shak.
3. A kind of wig worn for covering baldness or gray hairs, or for other purpose. – Smollet.

SCRATCH, v.i.

To use the claws in tearing the surface. The gallinaceous hen scratches for her chickens. Dull tame things that will neither bite nor scratch. – More.

SCRATCH, v.t. [G. kratzen, ritzen, kritzeln; D. kratsen; Sw. kratsa; Dan. kradser; probably from the root of grate, and L. rado. See Class Rd, No. 46, 49, 56, 58, 59.]

1. To rub and tear the surface of any thing with something sharp or ragged; as, to scratch the cheeks with the nails; to scratch the earth with a rake; to scratch the hands or face by riding or running among briers. A sort of small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass. – Grew.
2. To wound slightly.
3. To rub with the nails. Be mindful, when invention fails, / To scratch your head and bite your nails. – Swift.
4. To write or draw awkwardly; as, to scratch out a pamphlet. [Not in use.] – Swift.
5. To dig or excavate with the claws. Some animals scratch holes in which they burrow. To scratch out, to erase; to rub out; to obliterate.

SCRATCH'ED, pp.

Torn by the rubbing of something rough or pointed.

SCRATCH'ER, n.

1. He or that which scratches.
2. Fowls which scratch for food, as the common hen and cock.

SCRATCH'ES, n. [plur.]

Cracked ulcers on a horse's foot, just above the hoof.

SCRATCH'ING, ppr.

Rubbing with something pointed or rough; rubbing and tearing the surface.

SCRATCH'ING-LY, adv.

With the action of scratching. Sidney.

SCRAW, n. [Irish and Erse.]

Surface; cut turf. [Not in use.] – Swift.

SCRAWL, n.

1. Unskillful or inelegant writing; or a piece of hasty bad writing. – Pope.
2. In New England, a ragged, broken branch of a tree, or other brush-wood; brush.

SCRAWL, v.i.

1. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.
2. To creep; to crawl. [This is from crawl, but I know not that it is in use.] – Ainsworth.

SCRAWL, v.t. [Qu. from crawl, or its root, or from the D. schravelen, to scratch or scrape. Both may be from one root.]

1. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly. Swift.
2. To write awkwardly.

SCRAWL'ED, pp.

Written unskillfully.

SCRAWL'ER, n.

One who scrawls; a hasty or awkward writer.

SCRAWL'ING, ppr.

Writing hastily or inelegantly.

SCRAY, n.

A fowl called the sea swallow, [hirundo marina,] of the genus Terna.

SCRE'A-BLE, a. [L. screabilis, from screo, to spit out.]

That may be spit out. [Obs.]

SCREAK, n.

A creaking; a screech.