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Scrawl (skr�l), n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.
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The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot.
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You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.
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Scrawler (-ẽr), n. One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
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Scrawny (?), a. [Cf. .] Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
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Scray (?), n. [Cf. W. ysgräen, ysgräell, a sea swallow, Armor. skrav.] (Zoöl.) A tern; the sea swallow. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also scraye.]
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Screable (?), a. [L. screare to hawk, spit out.] Capable of being spit out. [Obs.] Bailey.
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Screak (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Screaked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Screaking.] [Cf. Icel. skrækja to screech. Cf. , v., .] To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.
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Screak, n. A creaking; a screech; a shriek. Bp. Bull.
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Scream (skrēm), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Screamed (skrēmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Screaming.] [Icel. skræma to scare, terrify; akin to Sw. skräma, Dan. skræmme. Cf. .] To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
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I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Shak.
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And scream thyself as none e'er screamed before. Pope.
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Scream, n. A sharp, shrill cry, uttered suddenly, as in terror or in pain; a shriek; a screech. “Screams of horror.” Pope.
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Screamer (skrēmẽr), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidæ, and the suborder Palamedeæ. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.
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2. Something so remarkable as to provoke a scream, as of joy. [Slang]
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3. An exclamation mark. [Printer's Slang]
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Screaming, a. 1. Uttering screams; shrieking.
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2. Having the nature of a scream; like a scream; shrill; sharp.
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The fearful matrons raise a screaming cry. Dryden.
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Scree (skrē), n. A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky débris. [Prov. Eng.] Southey.
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Screech (skrēch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Screeched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Screeching.] [Also formerly, scritch, OE. skriken, skrichen, schriken, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skrækja to shriek, to screech, skrīkja to titter, Sw. skrika to shriek, Dan. skrige; also Gael. sgreach, sgreuch, W. ysgrechio, Skr. kharj to creak. Cf. , v., , v.] To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek. “The screech owl, screeching loud.” Shak.
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Screech, n. A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
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Coloq. Screech bird , or Coloq. Screech thrush (Zoöl.), the fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. -- Coloq. Screech rain . -- Coloq. Screech hawk (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] -- Coloq. Screech owl . (Zoöl.) (a) A small American owl (Scops asio), either gray or reddish in color. (b) The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other species.
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Screechers (?), n. pl. (Zoöl.) The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.
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Screechy (?), a. Like a screech; shrill and harsh.
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Screed (skrēd), n. [Prov. E., a shred, the border of a cap. See .] 1. (Arch.) (a) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide. (b) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
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2. A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot.]
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Screed, n. [See 1st . For sense 2 cf. also Gael. sgread an outcry.] 1. A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
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2. An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
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The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind. Sir W. Scott.
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Screen (skrēn), n. [OE. scren, OF. escrein, escran, F. écran, of uncertain origin; cf. G. schirm a screen, OHG. scirm, scerm a protection, shield, or G. schragen a trestle, a stack of wood, or G. schranne a railing.] 1. Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
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Your leavy screens throw down. Shak.
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Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. Bacon.
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2. (Arch.) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.
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3. A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.
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4. A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.
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5. (Cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.
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6. a netting, usu. of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects. -- Coloq. Screen door , a door of which half or more is composed of a screen. -- Coloq. Screen window , a screen inside a frame, fitted for insertion into a window frame.
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7. The surface of an electronic device, as a television set or computer monitor, on which a visible image is formed. The screen is frequently the surface of a cathode-ray tube containing phosphors excited by the electron beam, but other methods for causing an image to appear on the screen are also used, as in flat-panel displays.
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8. The motion-picture industry; motion pictures. “A star of stage and screen.”
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Screen (skrēn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Screened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Screening.] 1. To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.
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They were encouraged and screened by some who were in high commands. Macaulay.
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2. To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.
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3. to examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose. As: (a) To inspect the qualifications of candidates for a job, to select one or more to be hired. (b) (Biochem., Med.) to test a large number of samples, in order to find those having specific desirable properties; as, to screen plant extracts for anticancer agents.
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Screening (skrēnĭng), n. the process of examining or testing objects methodically to find those having desirable properties. See . In the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical screening involves testing a large number of samples of substances to find those having desirable pharmacological activity; those samples which have the property sought are called active or positive in the screen. The substances tested may be pure compounds with known structure, mixtures of pure compounds, or complex mixtures obtained by extraction from living organisms. There are often additional sets of test performed on active samples, called Coloq. counterscreening to eliminate those samples that may also possess undesirable properties. In the case of screening of mixtures from living organisms, a type of counterscreening called is usually performed, to determine if the active sample contains a known compound which has previously been studied.
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Screenings (?), n. pl. The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
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Screw (skrṳ), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. écrou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skrūfa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.
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☞ The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the screw, its base equaling the circumference of the cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread.
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2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.
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3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a screw. See Screw propeller, below.
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4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
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5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard. Thackeray.
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6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]
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7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] Mayhew.
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8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. Ld. Lytton.
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9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th , 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
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10. (Zoöl.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw (Caprella). See Sand screw, under .
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Coloq. Archimedes screw , Coloq. Compound screw , Coloq. Foot screw , etc. See under , , , etc. -- Coloq. A screw loose , something out of order, so that work is not done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. H. Martineau. -- Coloq. Endless screw , or Coloq. perpetual screw , a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a worm. -- Coloq. Lag screw . See under . -- Coloq. Micrometer screw , a screw with fine threads, used for the measurement of very small spaces. -- Coloq. Right and left screw , a screw having threads upon the opposite ends which wind in opposite directions. -- Coloq. Screw alley . See , under . -- Coloq. Screw bean . (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree (Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. -- Coloq. Screw bolt , a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a key bolt. See 1st , 3. -- Coloq. Screw box , a device, resembling a die, for cutting the thread on a wooden screw. -- Coloq. Screw dock . See under . -- Coloq. Screw engine , a marine engine for driving a screw propeller. -- Coloq. Screw gear . See Spiral gear, under . -- Coloq. Screw jack . Same as . -- Coloq. Screw key , a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner wrench. -- Coloq. Screw machine . (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods. -- Coloq. Screw pine (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus Pandanus, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves. -- Coloq. Screw plate , a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws forming dies. -- Coloq. Screw press , a press in which pressure is exerted by means of a screw. -- Coloq. Screw propeller , a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel propelled by a screw. -- Coloq. Screw shell (Zoöl.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied genera. See . -- Coloq. Screw steamer , a steamship propelled by a screw. -- Coloq. Screw thread , the spiral rib which forms a screw. -- Coloq. Screw stone (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite. -- Coloq. Screw tree (Bot.), any plant of the genus Helicteres, consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs, with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled capsules; -- also called twisted-horn, and twisty. -- Coloq. Screw valve , a stop valve which is opened or closed by a screw. -- Coloq. Screw worm (Zoöl.), the larva of an American fly (Compsomyia macellaria), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. -- Coloq. Screw wrench . (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a screw. -- Coloq. To put the screws on or Coloq. To put the screw on , to use pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce. -- Coloq. To put under the screw or Coloq. To put under the screws , to subject to pressure; to force. -- Coloq. Wood screw , a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of Wood screw, under .
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Screw (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Screwed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Screwing.] 1. To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.
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2. To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
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But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail. Shak.
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3. Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
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Our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France. swift.
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4. To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
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He screwed his face into a hardened smile. Dryden.
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5. To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination. [Cant, American Colleges]
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Coloq. To screw out , to press out; to extort. -- Coloq. To screw up , to force; to bring by violent pressure. Howell. -- Coloq. To screw in , to force in by turning or twisting.
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Screw, v. i. 1. To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting. Howitt.
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2. To turn one's self uneasily with a twisting motion; as, he screws about in his chair.
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Screw-cutting (?), a. Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
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Screw-driver (?), n. A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
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Screwer (?), n. One who, or that which, screws.
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Screwing, a. & n. from , v. t.
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Coloq. Screwing machine . See Screw machine, under .
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Scribable (?), a. [See .] Capable of being written, or of being written upon. [R.]
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Scribatious (?), a. [See .] Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [Obs.] Barrow.
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Scribbet (?), n. A painter's pencil.
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Scribble (?), v. t. [Cf. .] (Woolen Manuf.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
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Scribble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribbled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Scribbling (-blĭng).] [From .] 1. To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
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2. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
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Scribble, v. i. To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
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If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope.
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Scribble, n. Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. Boyle.
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Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
In this my scribble. Bunyan.
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Scribblement (?), n. A scribble. [R.] Foster.
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Scribbler (?), n. One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
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The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.
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Scribbler, n. A scribbling machine.
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Scribbling (?), n. [See 1st .] The act or process of carding coarsely.
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Coloq. Scribbling machine , the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
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Scribbling, a. Writing hastily or poorly.
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Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.
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Scribbling, n. The act of writing hastily or idly.
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Scribblingly, adv. In a scribbling manner.
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Scribe (skrīb), n. [L. scriba, fr. scribere to write; cf. Gr. skarifos a splinter, pencil, style (for writing), E. scarify. Cf. , , , , .] 1. One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
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2. (Jewish Hist.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
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