scurrility (skuriliti)

[Early mod. E. also skurrillity; Yet will ye see in many cases how pleasant speeches and sauouring some skurrillity and vnshamefastnes haue now and then a certaine decencie, and well become both the speaker to say, and the hearer to abide. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 224. Shak., L. L. L., iv. 2. 55. So it shall please you to abrogate scurrility . an abusive tirade. 2. A scurrilous remark, attack, or outburst; Buffons, altogether applying their wits to Scur rill i ties & other ridiculous matters. scurry (skur'i), n.; pl. scurries (-iz). [Also skurry; The birds circled overhead, or dropped like thick scur ries of snow-flakes on the water. B. Taylor , Northern Travel, p. 305. 3. In sporting, a short race run for amusement by inferior horses or non-winners. Krik's Guide to the Turf . scurvily (sker'vi-li), adv . In a scurvy manner; meanly; shabbily. How scurvily thou criest now, like a drunkard! Fletcher, Wife for a Month, i. 2. again. When I drew out the mony, he return'd it as scurvily Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 2, 1641. scurvine (sker'vi-nes), n. Scurvy character; meanne ; basene ; shabbine . Bailey. scurvy1 (skėr'vi), a. [ wife, fe, wives, etc.): see scurfy. For the fig. senses 2, 3, cf. scabby, shabby, in like uses.] 1. Scurfy; covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; diseased with scurvy; scorbutic. Whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish,. or be scurvy or scabbed, bread of his God.' Lev. xxi. 20. ९ he shall not come nigh to offer the 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; worthle ; contemptible; paltry; shabby: as, a scurvy fellow. A very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral. Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. 46. 'Twas but a little scurvy white money, hang it! B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii. 1. While we lay at Tabago, we had like to have had a scurvy trick plaid us by a pretended Merchant from Panama, who came, as by stealth, to traffick with us privately. Dampier, Voyages, I. 188. 3. Offensive; mischievous; malicious. Nay, but he prated, And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms Against your honour. Shak ., Othello, i. 2. 7. scurvy2 (skėr'vi), n. [Formerly also scurvie , scurvey ; appar. abbr. of scurvy disease or some similar phrase; prob. confused also with scor bute , ML. scorbutus : see scorbute .] A disease usually presenting swollen, spongy, easily bleeding gums, fibrinous effusion into some of scutcher The famous scutage , the acceptance of a money composition for military service, dates from this time (1159). E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, V. 451.