script (skript)

[ I trowe it were to longe yow to tarie, If I yow tolde of every scrit [var. script ] and bond By which that she was feffed in his lond. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 453. Do you see this sonnet, This loving script ? do you know from whence it came too? Fletcher, Wife for a Month, i. 2. 2. In law, an original or principal document. -3. Writing; handwriting; written form of letter; written characters; style of writing. A good deal of the manuscript. was in an ancient English script, although so uncouth and shapele were the characters that it was not easy to resolve them into letters. 4. In printing, types that imitate written letters or writing. See example under ronde. Hawthorne , Septimius Felton, p. 122. Lombardic script. See Lombardic. - Mirror script. See mirror - script. - Scripts of martt. Same as letters of marque (which see, under marque ). Script., script. An abbreviation of scripture or scriptural. script i on (skrip's hon), n. [ scribe.] A handwriting, especially when presenting any peculiarity by which the writer or the epoch of the writing may be fixed: as, a script i on of the fourteenth century. Britain taught Ireland a peculiar style of script i on and ornament for the writing of her manuscripts. Rock , Church of our Fathers, i. 275. Written: as, script it i ous (skrip-tish'us), a. script it i ous testimony. Bentham . script or script (skrip'tor), n. [ script or , a writer, wallet; a bag; a satchel, as for travelers; especially, a pilgrim's pouch, sometimes represented as decorated with scallop-shells, the Horn tok burd on and scrippe, And wrong his lippe. emblems of a pilgrim. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, vi. The women are all.. ill-favored, scrimped; that means ill-nurtured simply. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 71. scrimping-bar (skrim'ping-bär), n. In calico printing, a grooved bar which smooths the fabric right and left to facilitate its proper feeding to the printing-machine. The scrimping - bar is made of iron or bra with a curved surface furrowed by grooves, cut right and left from the centre. W. Crookes, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 558. scrimply (skrimp'li), adv . In a scrimp manner; barely; hardly; scarcely. Down flow'd her robe, a tartan sheen, Till half a leg was scrimply seen; And such a leg! my bonnie Jean Alone could peer it. Burns, The Vision. scrimpne (skrimp'nes), n . Scantine ; pinched appearance or state; smallne of allow ance. scrimp-rail (skrimp'rāl), п. Same as scrimp ing - bar. The cloth then pa es over the corrugated scrimp rails. Spons' Encyc. Manuf ., I. 493. scrimp tion (skrimp's hon), п. [Irreg. scrimp + -tion .] A small portion; a pittance: as, add just a scrimp tion of salt. Hall i well . [Local.] scrimpy (skrim'pi), a . [ scrimp + -y1.] Scrimp. [Colloq.] Four acres is scrimpy measure for a royal garden, even for a king of the heroic ages whose daughter did the family washing. N. and Q., 7th ser., X. 8. scrimshaw (skrim's ha), v. t. and i. [A nautical word of unstable orthography; also scrims hon, scrims chon, skrimshon, scrims horn, skrimschont, skrimshander; origin unknown. If the form scrimshaw is original, the word must be due to the surname Scrimshaw.] To engrave various fanciful designs on (shells, whales' teeth, walrus-tusks, etc.); in general, to execute any piece of ingenious mechanical work. [Sailors' language.] King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 30. He [the friar] went his wey, no lenger wolde he reste, With scrippe and tipped staf, ytukked hye. Chaucer , Summoner's Tale, 1. 29. David chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip . 1 Sam. xvii. 40. 2. In her., a bearing representing a pouch or almoner, and supposed to be a pilgrim's scrip. It is often combined with a pilgrim's staff, or bourdon. See staff.