Scrophularineae 
ter, and of suspicious or actively poisonous properties; 
many, as f-crophidaria (the type), Franciscea, etc., yield 
rem 
era, 
par: 
chacereT Others yield some of the'uiost ornamental flmv 
ers of the garden. For the principal types of tribes, see 
Verbascum, Calceolaria. Antirrhinum, Chelone, Gratiola, 
Digitalis, Gerardia, and Euphrasia. See also ColUnlta, 
Castilleia, Herpentis, Maurandia, Melampyrum, Mimulus, 
Jlysanthen, Pentstemon, Pedicularis, Khinanthus, Schical- 
bea, and Sibthorpia. 
scropliularineous (skrof"u-la-rin'e-us), a. Of, 
pertaining to, or characterizing the Scropliu- 
larinex (Scropii ulariaccee). 
scrophularosmin (skrof'u-lii-ros'min), [< 
Seroplinlaria + osmium + -in 2 ."} A principle 
found by Walz in ScropJiularia nodosa. 
scrophulest, pi- See scrofules. 
scrota, a. Plural of scrotum. 
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I cry thee mercy, my good scroyle. 
B. Jomon, Poetaster, iv. 1. 
jhrub, the common form of the same word. 
Hence ult. scrub' 2 . In def. 4 (and perhaps 3) 
from the verb scrub*.] I. n. 1. Abush; shrub; 
a tree or shrub seemingly or really stunted. 
2. Collectively, bushes ; brushwood ; under- 
wood ; stunted forest. 
He ... threw himself on the heathery tarub which met 
the shingle. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Eugby, ii. 8. 
'Twas his boast 
That through thickest of scrub he could steer like a shot, 
And the black horse was counted the best on the coast. 
A. L. Gordon, From the Wreck. 
3. A worn-out brush; a stunted broom. Imp. 
Diet. 4. One who labors hard and lives mean- 
scruff 
hard rubbing, as with a brush or something 
rough ; a scrub. 
The floor was yellow and shining from immemorial 
scrubbing. Harpers JIag., LXXX. 282. 
SCrubbing-board. (skrub'iug-bord), n. A cor- 
rugated board on which clothes are scrubbed 
in the course of washing; a wash-board. 
HIT great black, muscular amis drooped towards the 
scrubbing -board that reclined In the tub. 
The Century, XXXVIII. 84. 
scrubbing-brush (skrub'ing-brush), . Abrush 
with stiff, short bristles for cleaning wood- 
work, or the like, with water and soap, and 
sometimes sand. 
scrub-bird (skrub'berd), H. A bird of the fam- 
tiyAtrickiidee(oTAtrichornithidse): so called be- 
cause it inhabits the dense scrub of Australia. 
scrota! (skro'tal), a. [=F. scrotal; as scrotum ly; a drudge; a mean or common fellow. 
+ -al.] Of or pertaining to the scrotum. 
Long scrotal nerve, the superficial perineal and the 
inferior pudendal. Posterior scrotal nerve, the deep 
perineal branch of the pudic. Scrotal hernia, inguinal 
hernia into the scrotum. Scrotal hypospadia, a form 
of arrested development in which the two sides of the 
scrotum are not united, but form as a cleft, into which 
opens the urethra. 
SCrotiform (skro'ti-form), a. [< L. scrotum, 
scrotum, + forma, form.] In bot., formed like 
a double bag, as the nectary in plants of the 
genus Satyrium. 
scrotitis (skro-ti'tis), n. [NL., < scrotum + 
-itis.] Inflammation of the scrotum. 
scrotocele (skro'to-sel), . [< L. scrotum, scro- 
tum, + Gr. KTI'AI], a tumor.] A scrotal hernia. 
scrotum (skro'tum), n. ; pi. scrota (-ta). [NL., 
< L. scrotum, scrotum, perhaps a transposed 
form, < scortitm, a skin, a hide, prob. akin to 
corium, skin, hide : see coriaceous, corium.] The 
purse-like tegumentary investment of the testes 
and part of the spermatic cord; the cod. The 
scrotum is a double bag, whose two cavities are separated 
by the septum scroti, which is indicated on the surface by 
a median seam or raphe. It consists of two layers the 
skin, or integumentary layer, and the contractile layer, or 
They are esteemed scrubs and fools by reason of their 
carriage. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 188. 
We should go there in as proper a manner as possible ; 
not altogether like the scrubs about us. 
Goldsmith, Vicar, x. 
5. A worn-out or worthless horse, ox, or other 
animal, or one of a common or inferior breed. 
Observation, and especially conversation with those 
farmers who get on the trains, convinces me that raising 
scrubs can be set down against the East rather than against 
the middle section, or even the West. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LV. 373. 
6. Anything small and mean. [Colloq.] 
II. a. Of inferior breed or stunted growth ; 
ill-conditioned; hence, scraggy; shabby; mean; 
scurvy; contemptible; small. 
With a dozen large vessels my vault shall be stor'd ; 
No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift. 
He finds some sort of scrub acquaintance. 
Su-ifl, Journal to Stella, xxviii. 
With much difficulty we got together a scrub wagon 
team of four as unkempt, dejected, and vicious-looking 
broncos as ever stuck fast in a quicksand. 
The Century, XXXVI. 200. 
Scrub-bird (Atrichia or Atrickornis rvjescetts). 
The best-known is A . damosa of westeni Australia ; A. ru- 
fescens has been lately described by Ramsay, from Rich- 
mond river, New South Wales. See Atrichia. Also called 
brush-bird. 
See Hy- 
T. Roosevelt, 
Scrub bircn. See birch.- Scrub crew, nine, etc., in scrub-boxwood (skrub'boks"wud), n. 
, - _._., . . contests or games, a crew, nine, or the like, the members metianthera, 
dartos. The integument is very thin, brownish, provided o f which have not trained beforehand.- Scrub race or SPrl ,h hrnnm Cskrub'broml n A coarse broom 
with hairs and sebaceous follicles, and more or less corru- game a race or game for which the contestants have not SCrUD Drooill ISKI uu uiu '>'<" 
gated or rugose, owing to the contraction of the dartos, f rain eo beforehand ; an impromptu race or game entered used on board ships tor scrubbing decks. 
which is a vascular layer containing a large amount of into for amusement, not for a prize. scrubby (skrub l), (I. [< scrub 1 + -y 1 .] 1. Ot 
non-striated muscular tissue All mammals whose testes scru i,,2 (skrub), P. ; pret, and pp. scrubbed, ppr. 
leave the abdominal cavity have a scrotum, but in posi- "" .\ '! ,,'_,* *.,,...;.;,,, wnMira T> 
tion, as well as in other particulars, it differs much in dif- scrubbing. [< MK scrulioen, SCtoOOcn V. 
schrobben, scrub, wash, rub, chide (>G. sclirub- 
ben, scour, scrub), = Dan. skrubbe = Sw. skrub- 
bn, rub, scrub (cf. Norw. sJcrubb, a scrubbing- 
brush), orig. to rub with a scrub or small bush, 
i. e. a handful of twigs : see scrub 1 , shrub. 
Cf. broom 1 , a brush, likewise named from the 
plant.] I. trans. To rub hard, either with a scrub-cattle (skrub'kaf'l), . Cattle that stray 
brush or other instrument or a cloth, or with from the herds and run wild in the scrub ; 
the bare hand, for the purpose of cleaning, scrubbers. [Australian.] 
Sailors engaged 
ferent cases. It is perineal, as in man, monkeys, dogs, etc. ; 
or inguinal, as in the horse, bull, etc. ; or abdominal, as in 
marsupials, in the position of the mammary pouch of the 
female. It may be sessile and little protuberant, or pen- 
dulous by a narrow neck, as in the bull, marsupials, etc. 
Raphe Of the scrotum. See raphe. 
Scrouge (skrouj), v. t. ; pret. and pp. serouged, 
ppr. scrouging. [Also scroogc, scrudgc, early 
mod. E. also scruze, scruse; dial, forms, termi- 
nally assibilated, of "scrug, shrug, with sense 
To 
inferior breed or stunted growth; stunted; 
hence, small; shabby; contemptible; mean: 
as, a scrubby cur ; a scrubby tree. 
I could not expect to be welcome in such a smart place 
as that poor scrubby midshipman as I am. 
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, xxv. 
2. Covered with scrub or underwood: 
scrubby land. 
as, 
partly imported from crowd 1 : see slirug.] To scouring, or making bright; cleanse, scour, or scrub-gang (skrub'gang), . Sailors e 
squeeze ; press ; crowd. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.] polish by rubbing with something rough. in cleaning or dressing down the decks. 
You know what I am a good, stiddy-going, hard-work- 
ing farmer, shore to get my sheer of what 's to be had in 
the world without scrouying anybody else. 
E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xxxiii. 
scrouger (skrou'jer), n. One who scrouges; 
figuratively, something big; a whopper; a 
screamer. [Slang, U. S.] 
SCrow (skrou), , [< ME. screw, sermee, skrowc, 
scroue, < OF. escroue, escroe (ML. reflex eseroa), 
f., a strip, slip of paper or parchment, a label, 
list, register, roll, schedule, brief, warrant, a ipriibbed 
jail-register, also escrou, m., F. ccrou, m., a jail- 
register; < MD. scltroode, a strip, shred, slip of 
paper, = AS. screa.de, a strip, place, shred: see 
shred and screed, of which scrow is thus a dou- 
Now Moll had whirl'd her mop with dextrous airs, 
Prepar'd to scrub the entry and the stairs. 
Strift, Morning. 
II. intraits. 1. To cleanse, scour, or polish 
things by rubbing them with something rough 
or coarse; rub hard. 2. To drudge; grub: as, 
book.] If. A strip or roll of parchment or pa- 
per; a scroll; a writing. 
This scrowe is mad only for the informacion of the 
worthy and worshipfull lordes the arbitrores. 
Paston Letters, I. 18. 
2. Curriers' cuttings or clippings from hides, 
as the ears and other redundant parts, used for 
making glue. 
We lay here all the day, and scrubb'd our new Bark, that SCTUb-graSS, SCrubby-graSS (skrub gras, skrub - 
if ever we should be chased we might the better escape. i-gras), . The scouring-rush. [Prov. Eng.] 
Dampier, Voyages, 1. 4. scru b-pak (skrub'6k),H. A name of three low 
American oaks, (a) Quercus Catesbiei of the south- 
eastern United States, a small tree useful chiefly for fuel. 
Also called Turkey oak and black-jack. (6) (J. undulata, 
var. Gambellii, of the Rocky Mountain region southward : 
sometimes a tree over 40 feet high, often a low shrub 
spreading by underground shoots and forming dense 
thickets, (c) The black scrub-oak, Q. Hid/alia, a straggling 
bush found on sandy barrens from New England to Ken- 
tucky. Also called bear-oak. 
scrub-pine (skrub'pln), . See pine 1 . 
scrub-rider (skrub'ri'der), n. One accustom- 
ed to ride through the scrub; specifically, a 
rancher who rides out in search of scrub-cattle. 
[Australian.] 
A favourite plan among the bold scrub-riders. 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 278. 
runs wild in the scrub, generally coming out at scrub-robin (skrub'rob"in), H. A bird of the 
leopen; in the plural, scrub- genus Drymotles (Unjmacedus), inhabiting the 
(skrub'ed), <i. [< 
Same as scrubby. 
A little scrubbed boy, 
No higher than thyself. 
Shall., M. of V., v. 1.162. 
blet. Cf. Icel. skreetha, an old scroll, an old scrubber 1 (skrub'er), H. Kscrw&i -f- -CT-I.] An 
1 11 -t . A _A__;__ n ^e T j. __ __ w**w~ \ /7 i, i j 3 
animal which breaks away from the herd, and 
Four species are described. 
night to feed in the t^- . 
cattle. [Australian.] Australian scrub. 
The Captain was getting in the scrubbers, cattle which [Australian.] 
had been left, under the not very careful rule of the Dono- sCTUbstone (skrub'ston), . [< scrub* + stone.] 
vans, to run wild in the mountains. A spe cies of calcif erous sandstone, used in some 
H. Ktnysley, Geoifry Hamlyn, xxix. (Dot*,..) loc lities for scrubbing stone steps, flagstones, 
SCrowHskroul), H. [A var. of scroll.] It. scrubber 2 (skrnb'er). . [=~D.schrobber, a rub- etc . [p rO v. Eng.] 
Same as scroll 2. A thin incrustation, some- ber, scraper, scrub-brush; as scruW + -cr*.] scrub-turkey (skrub'ter'ki), . Amegapodor 
1. One who scrubs ; specifically, one of a scrub- m ound-bird. See cut under megapod. 
gang aboard ship. 2. A scrubbing-brush. took at this immense mound, a i!> <rt./'s nest! 
3. An apparatus for freeing coal-gas from thirty or forty lay their eggs in it. 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Que 
times calcareous and sometimes silicious. upon 
the wall of a lode: so called as peeling off like 
a scroll. K. Hunt. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
scroylet (skroil), . [Appar. orig. applied to a 
scrofulous person; < OF. escroelles, escroitrlliv. 
ecrouclles (ML. reflex scroellx), < ML. scrofcllee, 
scrofula, dim. of L. scrofulse. pi., scrofulous 
swellings: see scrofula.] A fellow; especially, 
a mean fellow; a wretch. 
These scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings. 
Sl,nk., K. John, ii 1. 373. 
tarn" impurities and ammonia. It consists of a 
ueensland, I. 214. 
towernllcdwitliloosematenalsoverwhichwatertrickles. Scru bw00d (skrub'wud), II. A small composite 
The gas is caused to rise through the falling water, and is j "f,,,,.. ;,;,,,;,., ,<,, 
j f,,,,.. ;,;,,,;,., ,<,, n f 
purified during the ascent. The tar-impregnated water is tlee ; lommidciilllon luijosum, ot 
subsequently treated to recover the ammonia. SCrudge (skruj), C. t. Same as scrouge. 
4. In laitlicr-muiiuf., a machine for washing scruffl (skruf), u. Same as scurf 1 . 
leather after it comes from the tan-pits. scruff- (skruf), . Same as slmiff. 
scrubbing (skrub'ing), n. [Verbal n. of scrulft, scruff 3 (skruf), H. [Also skruff; variant (with 
c.] A cleansing or scouring accomplished by intrusive r) of scuff, ult. of scuft: see scuff", 
