scrub stone (skrubston)

[ Look at this immense mound, a scrub turkey's nest! thirty or forty lay their eggs in it. A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 214. scrub wood (skrub'wud), n. A small composite tree, Comm i dendron rugosum , of St. Helena. scrudge (skruj), v . t . Same as scrouge. scruff (skruf), n. Same as scurf1 . scruff2 (skruf), n . Same as shruff . scruff3 (skruf), n. [Also skruff ' ; variant (with intrusive r) of scuff , ult. of scuft : see scuff2 , The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0396.png:[blocks in formation] He's what I call a real gentleman. He says if I ever go to him tipsy to draw, and says it quite solemn like, he'll take me by the scruff of the neck and kick me out. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 335. "She'd take your honour's scruff , " said he, "And pitch you over to Bolong." W. S. Gilbert, Babette's Love. scruffy (skruf'i), a. [Avar. of scurfy; cf.scruff1.] Same as scurfy. [Obsolete or colloq.] The serpent goes to fenell when he would clear his sight, or cast off his old scruffy skin to wear a new one. Howell , Parly of Beasts, p. 76. (Davies.) The sheep [in South Africa) becomes scruffy and emaciated. U. S. Cons . Rep ., No. lviii. (1885), p. 150. scrummage (skrum'āj), n. Same as scrimmage . [Prov. Eng.] scrumptious (skrump's hus), a. [Perhaps scrimpti (on) + -ous, simulating a L. origin.].] 1. Fine; nice; particu lar; fastidious. [Slang.] Times are mopish and nurly. I don't mean to be scrumptious about it, Judge; but I do want to be a man. S. Judd , Margaret, ii. 7. He thought his "best hat" would be "more scrump tious ," and he shuffled off to bring it. The Century , XXXVIII. 573. 2. Delightful; first-rate: as, scrumptious weather. [Slang.] And we've got all the farther end of the wing down stairs-the garden bedrooms; you've no idea how scrump Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Gold thwaite, vi. tious it is! IMG:content-0397.png:[blocks in formation] especially, to have conscientious doubts. II. trans. To have scruples about; doubt; hesitate with regard to; question; especially, to have conscientious doubts concerning: chiefly with an infinitive as object (now the only common use). Some scrupled the warrantablene of the course, seeing the major party of the church did not send to the churches for advice. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 338. He [David] scrupled the killing of God's anointed; Must the People therefore scruple to condemn their own anointed? Milton , Ans. to Salmasius.