Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: SCOWL – SCRAPE
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SCOWL, v.t.
To drive with a scowl or frowns. Milton.
SCOWL'ED, pp.
Frowned at.
SCOWL'ING, ppr.
Contracting the brows into wrinkles; frowning; expressing displeasure or sullenness.
SCOWL'ING-LY, adv.
With a wrinkled, frowning aspect; with a sullen look.
SCRAB'BLE, v.i. [D. krabbelen, to scrape, to scribble; krabben, to scrape; G. krabbeln, graben. This word belongs to the root of scrape, L. scribo, Eng. grave, engrave, &c. See Scrape.]
- To scrape, paw or scratch with the hands; to move along on the hands and knees by clawing with the hands; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. [A word in common popular use in New England, but not elegant.]
- To make irregular or crooked marks; as, children scrabble when they begin to write; hence, to make irregular and unmeaning marks. David … scrabbled on the doors of the gate. – 1 Sam. xxi.
SCRAB'BLE, v.t.
To mark with irregular lines or letters; as, to scrabble paper.
SCRAB'BLING, ppr.
Scraping; scratching; scrambling; making irregular marks.
SCRAF'FLE, v.i.
- To scramble; to be industrious. [Obs.] – Brocket.
- To shuffle; to use evasion. [Obs.] – Grose.
SCRAG, n. [This word is formed from the root of rag, crag, Gr. ῥαχια, ῥαχις, rack. Class Rg.]
Something thin or lean with roughness. A raw-boned person is called a scrag, but the word is vulgar.
SCRAG'GED, or SCRAG'GY, a. [supra.]
- Rough with irregular points or a broken surface; as, a scraggy hill; a scragged back bone. Bentley.
- Lean with roughness. – Arbuthnot.
SCRAG'GED-NESS, or SCRAG'GI-NESS, n.
Leanness, or leanness with roughness; ruggedness; roughness occasioned by broken irregular points.
SCRAG'GI-LY, adv.
With leanness and roughness.
SCRAM'BLE, n.
- An eager contest for something, in which one endeavors to get the thing before another. The scarcity of money enhances the price and increases the scramble. – Locke.
- The act of climbing by the help of the hands.
SCRAM'BLE, v.i. [D. schrammen, to scratch. It is not improbable that this word is corrupted from the root of scrape, scrabble.]
- To move or climb by seizing objects with the hand, and drawing the body forward; as, to scramble up a cliff.
- To seize or catch eagerly at any thing that is desired; to catch with haste preventive of another; to catch at without ceremony. Man originally was obliged to scramble with wild beasts for nuts and acorns. Of other care they little reck'ning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast. – Milton.
SCRAM'BLER, n.
One who scrambles; one who climbs by the help of the hands.
SCRAM'BLING, n.
- The act of climbing by the help of the hands.
- The act of seizing or catching at with eager haste and without ceremony.
SCRAM'BLING, ppr.
- Climbing by the help of the hands.
- Catching at eagerly and without ceremony.
SCRAM'BLING-LY, adv.
By seizing or catching at eagerly.
SCRANCH, v.t. [D. schranssen; from cranch, craunch by prefixing s.]
To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch. [This is in vulgar use in America.]
SCRAN'NEL, a. [Qu. broken, split; from the root of cranny.]
Slight; poor. Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. [Not in use.] Milton.
SCRAP, n. [from scrape.]
- A small piece; properly something scraped off, but used for any thing cut off; a fragment; a crum; as, scraps of meat. – Shak.
- A part; a detached piece; as, scraps of history or poetry; scraps of antiquity; scraps of authors. Locke. Pope.
- A small piece of paper. Pope. [If used for script, it is improper.]
SCRAP'-BOOK, n.
A blank book for the preservation of short pieces of poetry or other extracts from books and papers.
SCRAPE, n. [Dan. scrab; Sw. skrap.]
- A rubbing.
- The sound of the foot drawn over the floor.
- A bow.
- Difficulty; perplexity; distress; that which harasses. [A low word.]
SCRAPE, v.i.
- To make a harsh noise.
- To play awkwardly on a violin.
- To make an awkward bow. To scrape acquaintance, to make one's self acquainted; to curry favor. [A low phrase introduced from the practice of scraping in bowing.]
SCRAPE, v.t. [Sax. screopan; D. schraapen, schrabben; G. schrapen; Sw. skrapa; Dan. skraber; Ir. scriobam, sgrabam; Russ. skrebu and ogrebayu; L. scribo, Gr. γραφω, to write; W. ysgravu, to scrape, from cravu, to scrape, from crav, claws. Owen. But probably from the general root of grave. In Ch. and Syr. כרב signifies to plow; in Ar. to strain, distress, gripe. See Grave.]
- To rub the surface of any thing with a sharp or rough instrument, or with something hard; as, to scrape the floor; to scrape a vessel for cleaning it; to scrape the earth; to scrap the body. – Job ii.
- To clean by scraping. – Lev. xiv.
- To remove or take off by rubbing. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. – Ezek. xxvi.
- To act upon the surface with a grating noise. The chiming clocks to dinner call; / A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall. – Pope. To scrape off, to remove by scraping; to clear away by rubbing. To scrape together, to gather by close industry or small gains or savings; as, to scrape together good estate.