scragged 
face ; full of asperities or surface irregularities ; 
scraggy; ragged. 
Fed with nothing else but the scragged and thorny lec- 
tures of monkish anil miserable sophistry. 
Milton, Church-Government, 11., Conclusion. 
2. Lean; thin and bony; showing angularity 
of form ; lacking in plumpness ; ill-conditioned. 
scraggedness (skrag'ed-nes), n. The state or 
character of being scragged ; leanness, or lean- 
ness with roughness; roughness occasioned by 
broken, irregular points. 
scraggily (skrag'i-li), adv. With leanness and 
roughness. 
scragginess (skrag'i-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being scraggy; leanness; rugged- 
ness ; roughness. 
scragglingt (skrag'Hng), a. [Prop, "scragling, 
< scrag 1 + -/in// 1 .] Scraggy. 
The Lord's sacrifice must be fat and fair ; not a lean 
scraggling starved creature. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, 1. 124. (Dames.) 
SCraggly (skrag'li), a. [Prop, "scragly, < scrag* 
+ -*] Having or presenting a rough, ir- 
regular, or ragged appearance : as, a scrayyly 
beard. 
The tough, seraggly wild sage abounds. 
T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 93. 
scraggy (skrag'i), a. [Early mod. E. also skrag- 
yy, skraggie; < scrag 1 + -y 1 . Cf. scroggy.] 1. 
Having an irregular, broken surface ; rough 
with irregular points ; rugged ; scragged. 
A scraggy rock, whose prominence 
Half overshades the ocean. .'. Philips, Cider, i. 
2. Lean; thin; bony; poor; scrawny. 
A bevy of dowagers stout or scraggy. 
Thackeray, Book of Snobs, xviii. 
Mary's throat, however, could not stand the severe test 
of laceless exposure. It was too slender and long. . . . 
Miss En-oil announced that she looked scraggy. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 224. 
scrag-necked (skrag'nekt), a. Having a scraggy 
neck. 
scrag-whale (skrag'hwal), n. A finner-whale 
of the subfamily Agaphelinee, having the back 
scragged in stead of finned. Agaphelusgibbosus 
is the common species of the North Atlantic. 
scraich, scraigh (skrach), r. . [< Gael, sgreach, 
sgreuch, screech, scream, = Ir. sgreach, shriek, 
= W. ysgrechio, scream; cf. screech, shriek, 
shrike 1 .'] To scream hoarsely ; screech; shriek; 
cry, as a fowl. [Scotch.] 
Faitricks scraichin' loud at e'en. 
Burnt, First Epistle to J. Lapralk. 
scraich, scraigh (skrach), n. [< scratch, v.] A 
hoarse scream; a shriek or screech. [Scotch.] 
scrallt, v. and n. See scrawl 1 , scratcft. 
scramasax (skram'a-saks), n. [Old Prankish 
"scramasacs, "scramasax (cited in ML. ace. pi. 
scramasaxos), < *scrama (MHG. schrame, G. 
schramme, a wound: see scrawm) + 'sacs (OHG. 
salts = AS. seax), knife : see sax 1 .] A long and 
heavy knife used by the Franks in hunting and 
in war, having a blade sometimes 20 inches in 
length. 
scramb (skramb), v. t. [A var. of scramp. Cf. 
8cramile.~\ To pull or scrape together with the 
hands. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
scramble (skram'bl), v. ; pret. and pp. scram- 
bled, ppr. scrambling. [Freq. of scramb, scramp; 
or a nasalized form of scrabble, a freq. verb from 
the same ult. source : see scrabble.] I. intrans. 
1. To struggle or wriggle along as if on all 
fours; move on with difficulty or in a flounder- 
ing manner, as by seizing objects with the hand 
and drawing the body forward : as, to scramble 
up a cliff; to scramble on in the world. 
The cowardly wretch fell down, crying for succour, and 
scrambling through the legs of them that were about him. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, 11. 
Up which defatigating hill, nevertheless, he scrambled, 
but with difficulty. Sir T. Herbert, Travels, p. 200. 
The hissing Serpents scrambled on the floor. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, ii. 130. 
Make a shift and scramble through 
The world's mud. Browning, Ring and Book, I. 23. 
2. To struggle rudely or in a jostling manner 
with others for the purpose of grasping or get- 
ting something; strive eagerly, rudely, and 
without ceremony for or as if for something 
thrown on the ground: as, to scramble for pen- 
nies; to scramble for a living; to scramble for 
office. 
The corps do garde which kept the gate were scrambling 
to gather them [walnuts] up. Conjat, Crudities, I. 21. 
Now no more shall thou need to scramble for thy meat, 
nor remove thy stomach with the court; but thy credit 
shall command thy heart's desire. 
Beau, and PL, Woman-lluter, ii. 1. 
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The llishops, when they see him [the 1'ope] tottering, 
will leave him, and fall to tcrawliliiiii, uatdi who may. 
Miltun, Reformation in Eng., i. 
You must expect the like disgrace, 
Scrambling with rogues to get a place ; 
Must lose the honour you have guin'd, 
Your numerous virtues foully stain'd. 
Swift, Answer to Mr. Lindsay. 
II. trans. 1. To stir or toss together in a 
random fashion; mix and cook in a confused 
mass. 
Juliet, scrambling up her hair, darted into the house to 
prepare the tea. Bulwer, My Novel, viii. 5. 
2. To throw down to be scrambled or strug- 
gled for: as, to scramble nuts. [Colloq.] 
The gentlemen laughs and throws us money ; or else 
we pelt each other with snowballs, and then they scram- 
bles money between us. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 563. 
3. To advance or push in a scrambling way. 
A real, honest, old fashioned boarding-school, where 
. . . girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scram- 
ble themselves into a little education, without any danger 
of coining back prodigies. Jane Austen, Emma, iii. 
Scrambled eggs, eggs broken into a pan or deep plate, 
with milk, butter, salt, and pepper, mixed together slightly 
and cooked slowly. 
scramble (skram'bl), n. [< scramble, v.] 1. 
A walk or ramble in which there is clambering 
and struggling with obstacles. 
How often the events of a story are set in the frame- 
work of a country walk or a burnslde scramble. 
Saturday Kev., April, 1874, p. 510. 
2. An eager, rude contest or struggle for the 
possession of something offered or desired ; an 
unceremonious jostling or pushing for the pos- 
session of something. 
Somebody threw a handful of apples among them, that 
set them presently together by the ears upon the scramble. 
Sir R. L'Eatnmge. 
Several lives were generally lost in the scramble. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 266. 
There was much that was ignoble and sordid : a scram- 
ble for the salaried places, a rush to handle the money pro- 
vided for arms. The Century, XXXVIII. 553. 
scrambler (skram'bler), n. [< scramble + -er 1 .] 
One who scrambles. 
All the little scramblers after fame fall upon him. 
Addimn. 
scrambling (skram'bling), p. a. Straggling; 
rambling; irregular; haphazard; random: as, 
scrambling streets. 
Farewell, my fellow courtiers all, with whom 
I have of yore made many a scrambling meal 
In corners, behind arrases, on stairs. 
Beau, and Fl., Wornan-Hater, iii. 3. 
Peter seems to have led a scrambling sort of literary ex- 
istence. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist, p. 137. 
scramblingly (skram'bling-li), adv. In a scram- 
bling or haphazard manner. 
scramp (skramp), v. t. [Prob. a nasalized 
form of scrape, conformed to the series scrimp, 
scrunip, etc. Cf. scramb, scramble.'] To catch 
at ; snatch. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
scran (skran), n. [Also skran; prob. < Icel. 
skran, rubbish, also marine stores. Cf. scran- 
nel, scranny.] 1. Scraps; broken victuals ; ref- 
use. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
Most of the lodging-house keepers buy the scran . . . 
of the cadgers ; the good food they either eat themselves 
or sell to the other travellers, and the bad they sell to par- 
ties to feed their dogs or pigs upon. 
Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, I. 466. 
2. Food in general. [Military slang.] Bad 
scran to you! bad luck to you ! may you fare badly! 
a mild imprecation used by the Irish. Out on the scran, 
begging. [Beggars' slang.] 
scranch (skranch), v. t. [Also scraunch, scrunch; 
prob. < D. schransen, MD. schrantsen, = LG. 
schransen = G. schranzen, eat heartily ; cf. G. 
dial, schranz, a crack, report, bang. In effect 
scranch, scraunch, scrunch are intensified forms, 
with prefixed s, of crunch, craiinch, crunch.'] To 
grind with the teeth, with a crackling sound ; 
craunch. [Colloq.] 
scranky (skrang'ki), a. [Appar. a nasalized 
form of scraggy; cf. scranny.] Scraggy; lank. 
J. Wilson. [Scotch.] 
scrannel (skran'el), a. [Appar. < 'scran (hard- 
ly identical with scran, refuse) + -el, here an 
adj. suffix with dim. effect. Cf. scranny .] Slight; 
slender; thin; squeaking. 
When they list, their lean and flashy songs 
Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. 
Milton, Lycidas, 1. 124. 
In its [the palm-squirrel's] shrill gamut there is no string 
of menace or of challenge. Its scrannel quips are point- 
lessso let them pass. 
P. Robinson, Under the Sun, p. 41. 
scranning (skran'ing), . [< scran + -ing 1 .] 
The act of begging for food. [Slang.] 
scrape 
scranny (skrun'i), . [Also, and now usually, 
scrairny ; appar. < "scran (see neminifl) + -y 1 .] 
Same as scrawny. [Prov. Eng.] 
scrap 1 (skrap), . [< ME. scrappc, < Icel. xkrap, 
scraps, trifles, = Norw. skrap = Sw. *xkrup in 
(i/'-K/.-mp, off-scrapings, refuse, dregs, = Dun. 
skrab, scrapings, trash, < Icel. Sw. Norw. xkrtipn 
= Dan. skrabe = E. scrape: see scrape.'] 1. A 
small piece, properly something scraped off; a 
detached portion; a bit; a fragment; a rem- 
nant : as, scraps of meat. 
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen 
the scraps. .Shalt., L. L. L., v. 1. 40. 
You again 
May eat scraps, and be thankful. 
Fletcher (and another), Elder Brother, v. 1. 
He is a Fool with a good Memory, and some few Scraps 
of other Folks Wit. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 5. 
The girl ran into the house to get some crumbs of bread, 
cold potatoes, and other such scraps as were suitable to 
the accommodating appetite of fowls. 
Hatcthorne, Seven Gables, vi. 
2. A detached piece or fragment of something 
written or printed; a short extract: as, scraps 
of writing ; scraps of poetry. 
A scrap of parchment hung by geometry 
(A great refinement in barometry) 
Can, like the stars, foretell the weather. 
Sw\ft, Elegy on Partridge. 
This is a very scrap of a letter. Walpole, Letters, II. 434. 
Clive is full of humour, and I enclose you a rude scrap 
representing the bishopess of Clapham, as she is called. 
Thackeray, Newcomes, Hi. 
Scraps of thundrous epic lilted out. 
Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
3. A picture suited for preservation in a scrap- 
book, or for ornamenting screens, boxes, etc. : 
as, colored scraps; assorted scraps. 4. pi. Fat, 
after its oil has been tried out; also, the refuse 
of fish, as menhaden, after the oil has been ex- 
pressed: as, blubber scraps. See graves 1 . 5. 
Wrought iron or steel, in the form of clippings 
or fragments, either produced in various pro- 
cesses of manufacture, or collected for the pur- 
pose of being reworked. 
In the manufacture of laminated steel barrels, the best 
quality of steel scrap is mixed with a small proportion of 
charcoal iron. Set. Amer., N. S., LV. 61. 
Dry scrap, the refuse of menhaden or other fish, after 
the oil has been expressed, dried in the sun or by artificial 
heat, for use as manure. Green scrap, crude fish-scrap 
or guano, containing 50 to 60 per cent, of water ; chum or 
crude pomace. Scrap-cutting machine, a machine in 
which long metal scrap is cut to size for bundling and re- 
working. 
worn-out bits of iron. 2. To make scrap or 
refuse of, as menhaden or other fish from which 
the oil has been expressed. 
scrap 2 (skrap), v. A dialectal variant of scrape 1 . 
scrap' 2 (skrap), n. [< scraps, v. Cf. scrape 1 , n., 
3.] A fight; a scrimmage. [Slang.] 
scrap 3 (skrap), . [Also scrape, and assibi- 
lated ghrap, shrape; perhaps due to scrap" 2 = 
scrape 1 , scratch, grub, as fowls; but cf. Icel. 
skreppa, a mouse-trap, perhaps same as skrep- 
pa, a bag, scrip : see scrip 1 .'] A snare for birds ; 
a place where chaff and grain are laid to lure 
birds. [Prov. Eng.] 
scrap-book (skrap'buk), n. A book for holding 
scraps ; a volume for the preservation of short 
pieces of poetry or prose, prints, engravings, 
etc., clipped from books and papers. 
scrap-cake (skrap'kak), n. Fish-scrap in mass. 
Also scrap-cheese. 
scrap-cinders (skrap'sin'derz), n. pi. The ash 
or residue of whale-scrap burnt in the try- 
works, used for scouring decks, etc. 
scrape 1 (skrap), v. ; pret. and pp. scraped, ppr. 
scraping. [< ME. scrapieti, scrapen, also assibi- 
lated shrapen, shrapien, shreapien, < Icel. Norw. 
Sw. skrapa = Dan. skrabe = D. schrapeti, scrape ; 
AS. scearpian, scarify: a secondary form of a 
strong verb, AS. screpan, screopan (pret. XCI-HJI, 
pp. screpen), scrape, also in comp. asm-pini, 
scrape off (screope, a scraper) ; connected with 
AS. scearp, etc., sharp: see sharp. Cf. scrap, 
scrapple 1 , scrub, scrabble, scramble.] I. trans. 
1. To shave or abrade the surface of with a 
sharp or rough instrument, especially a broad 
instrument, or with something hard; scratch, 
rasp, or shave, as a surface, by the action of a 
sharp or rough instrument ; grate harshly over. 
A hundred footsteps scrape the marble hall. 
Pope, Moral Essays, iv. 152. 
Somebody happened to scrape the floor with his chair 
just then; which accidental sound has the instantaneous 
effect that the cutting of the yellow hair by Iris had ii|>n 
infelix l)ido. 0. II'. JJolmcg, Autocrat, iii. 
