scrapire (skrapir)

shearwater, Puffin us anglorum. scrap-iron (skrap'i"ėrn), n. Old iron, as cuttings of plates and other miscellaneous fragments, accumulated for reworking. Wrought scrap-iron consists of cuttings, clippings, and worn-out small articles, such as horseshoe-nails; when carefully selected and rewrought, the product po e es superior toughne and malleability. scrap-metal (skrap'metal), n. Fragments of any kind of metal which are of use only for reworking or remelting. scrappily (skrap'i-li), adv. In scraps or fragments; fragmentarily; desultorily. [Colloq.] He [Carlyle] was still a raw, narrow-minded, scrappily educated Scotch man. Contemporary Rev. , XLIX. 779. scrappine (skrap'i-nes), n. Scrappy character or condition; ndition; fragmentarine ; disconnectedne . [Colloq.] The extracts are taken from the works of Dumas, Berquin, Gautier, Guizot, Victor Hugo, and the Comte e de Ségur; they are well graduated, and sufficiently long to avoid scrappine . The Academy , April 12, 1890, p. iv. of adv'ts.