scrottyle

[SKROTTA.] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, põt, IMG:content-1078.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A mean fellow; a paltry, stingy person. "They are esteemed scrubs and fools by reason of their carriage."-Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy , p. 127. 3. Something mean, paltry, or despicable. 4. Close, low, or stunted trees or brushwood; IMG:content-1079.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Mean and small; paltry, despicable. 2. Stunted, short. 3. Covered with scrub or low underwood. "On some scrubby ground on the opposite side of the river."- Field , Dec. 6, 1885. *scrub-by-Ish, a. [Eng.scrubby; -ish.] Some- what scrubby. IMG:content-1080.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1081.png:[blocks in formation] *5. Given to making objection; captious. *6. Nice, doubtful. IMG:content-1082.png:[blocks in formation] Capable of being admitted to scrutiny; discover- able by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination. *scrû-tā'-tion, s. [Lat. scrutatio, from scruta- tus , pa. par. of scrutor =to search into.] The act of searching; search, examination. *scrû-tine, v. i. [SCRUTINY.] To investigate. "They departed to scrutine of the matter."- *scrû-tin-ỹ, v . t . [SCRUTINY, 8.] To scrutinize. scru-toire (oire as war), s . [Fr. escritoire .] scry *scry, v . t . [A contr. of descry (q. v.).] To desery. to discover. "As it had bene two shepherds curres had scryde A ravenous wolfe." Spenser: F. Q. , V. xii. 38. *scrỹ (1), s . [Etym. doubtful.] A flock of wild fowl. *scrỹ (2), s . [ASCRY.] A cry. "And so with the scry , he was fayne to flye in his shirte barefote." Berners: Froi art; Cronycie, vol. i., ch. cclxxii. *scrŷme, v . i. [SCRIMER.] To fence. "Scryming and fencing with his point."-Kingsley: Westward Ho ! ch. iii. scŭd, v . i . & t . [A variant of scoot , itself another form of shoot (q. v.); Dan. skyde =to shoot, to push, to shove; Sw. skutta =to leap; skjuta =to shoot; Icel. skjóta =to shoot, to slip or scud away.] A. Intransitive : 1. Ord . Lang .: To run quickly or with precipitation; to be driven to flee or fly with haste. 2. Naut .: To be driven fast before a tempest with little or no sails spread. "All which time we scudded , or run before the wind very swift."-Dampier: Voyages (an. 1687). †B. Trans.: To pa over quickly. "His diffusive flock, In snowy groups diffusive, scud the vale." scŭd, s. [SCUD, v.] Shenstone: Ruined Abbey. 3592 scuf-fle, v . i . [A frequent. of scuff (q. v.).] 1. To fight or struggle tumultuously or confusedly; to struggle or contend with close grapple. *2. To shuffle, to scrape. "The rude will souffle through with ease enough." Cowper: Tirocinium, 340. *scuffle-hunter, s . (See extract.) "Those who are distinguished by the nick-name of scuffle-hunters prowl about the wharfs, quays, and warehouses under pretence of asking employment as porters and laborers; but their chief object is to pillage and plunder whatever comes in their way."-Police of the Metropolis (1797), p. 54.