scratch grass (skrach gras)

1. The arrow-leafed tear-thumb, Polygonum sagitta tum. [U. S.] -2. Same as scratch weed. scratchingly (skrach'ing-li), adv. With scratching action. [Rare.] Like a cat, when scratchingly she wheels about after a Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. mouse. scratchings (skrach'ingz), n. pl. [Cf. scratch1, n., 7. Po ibly it may be a corruption of sear cings, She'd take a big cullender to strain her lard wi', and then wonder as the scratch ins run through. George Eliot , Adam Bede, xviii. scratch-pan (skrach'pan), n. A pan in saltworks to receive the scratch. scratch weed (skrach'wed), n. The cleavers or goose-gra , Galium Aparine . The stems are prickly backward, and the leaves rough on the margin and midrib. [Prov. Eng.]