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- English Word Scraping Definition Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser.
- English Word Scrappily Definition In a scrappy manner; in scraps.
- English Word Scrappy Definition Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.
- English Word Scrat Definition To scratch.
- English Word Scrat Definition To rake; to search.
- English Word Scrat Definition An hermaphrodite.
- English Word Scratch Definition To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.
- English Word Scratch Definition To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
- English Word Scratch Definition To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.
- English Word Scratch Definition To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.
- English Word Scratch Definition To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
- English Word Scratch Definition To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
- English Word Scratch Definition A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision.
- English Word Scratch Definition A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.
- English Word Scratch Definition Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- English Word Scratch Definition A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
- English Word Scratch Definition A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
- English Word Scratch Definition Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.
- English Word Scratch coat Definition The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
- English Word Scratchback Definition A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
- English Word Scratchbrush Definition A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.
- English Word Scratched Definition of Scratch
- English Word Scratcher Definition One who, or that which, scratches; specifically (Zool.), any rasorial bird.
- English Word Scratching Definition of Scratch
- English Word Scratching Definition With the action of scratching.
- English Word Scratchweed Definition Cleavers.
- English Word Scratchwork Definition See Scratch coat.
- English Word Scratchy Definition Characterized by scratches.
- English Word Scraw Definition A turf.
- English Word Scrawl Definition See Crawl.