scrip2 (skrip)

[A corruption of script, appar. by vague a ociation with scrip1: see script.] 1. A writing; a certificate, deed, or schedule; a written slip or list. Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip. Shak., M. N. D., i. 2. 2. No, no, my soueraign; Ile take thine own word, without scrip or scrowle. Heywood, If you Know not me (Works, I. 318). 2. A scrap of paper or parchment. I believe there was not a note, or least scrip of paper of any consequence in my po e ion, but they had a view of it. Bp. Spratt , Harl. Misc. ( Davies .) It is ridiculous to say that bills of exchange shall pay our debts abroad; that cannot be till scrips of paper can be made current coin. Locke , Considerations on Interest. 3. In com ., an interim or provisional document or certificate, to be exchanged, when certain payments have been made or conditions complied with, for a more formal certificate, as of shares or bonds, or entitling the holder to the payment of interest, a dividend, or the like; also, such documents or certificates collectively. Lucky rhymes to him were scrip and share. Tennyson, The Brook. There was a new penny duty for scrip certificates. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, III. 330. writer; scribe. sc scr scriptorium (skrip-tō'ri-um), n.; pl. scrip to riums, scriptoria (-umz, -ä). [= nz, -ä). [OF. escriptoire =It. scrittojo, The annalist is the annalist of his monastery or his cathedral; his monastery or his cathedral has had a history, has records, charters, a library, a scriptorium for multiplying copies of record. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 79. scriptory (skrip'tō-ri), a. [= OF. scrip to ire , script or i us , pertaining to writing or to a writer, script or , a writer, scribere , pp. scrip tus , write: see scribe , script .] 1. Expre ed in writing; not verbal; written. Of wills duo sunt genera, nuncupatory and scriptory. Swift, Tale of a Tub, ii. 2. Used for writing. [Rare.] With such differences of reeds, vallatory, sagittary, scrip tory, and others, they might be furnished in Judea. Sir T. Browne, Tracts, i. scriptural (skrip'tū-ral), a. [ An original is styled the protocol, or scriptural matrix; and if the protocol, which is the root and foundation of the instrument, does not appear, the instrument is not valid. Ayliffe , Parergon. 2. Pertaining to, contained in, or in accordance with the Scriptures: as, a scriptural phrase; scriptural doctrine. [Le specific than Bibli cal, and more commonly without a capital.] The convocation itself was very busy in the matter of the translation of the Bible and Scriptural for mule of prayer and belief. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 288. =Syn. 2. Biblical , Scriptural . Biblical relates to the Bible as a book to be known or studied as, a Biblical scholar; Biblical exegesis or criticism. Scriptural relates to the Bible as book containing doctrine: as, the idea is not the Bible: as, a scriptural phrase. We speak of a Bible character, a Bible hero. scripturientt (skrip-tū'ri-ent), a . and n. [ scribere , pp. script us , write: see scribe.] I. a. Having a desire or pa ion for writing; having a liking or itch for authorship. Here lies the corps of William Prynne-... This grand script uri ent paper spiller, This endle , needle margin filler, Was strangely tost from post to pillar. Pembroke Hall,... noted from the very dawn of the Reformation for scripturists and encouragers of gospel learning. Ridley, quoted in Biog. Notice of Bradford [(Parker Soc., 1853), II. xvii. scritt, n. A Middle English form of script . scritch1 (skrich), v . i . [A var. of screech , ult. an a ibilated form of scrike : see scrike , shrikel , shriek.] To screech; shriek. That dismal pair, the scritching owl And buzzing hornet! B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2. On that, the hungry curlew chance to scritch . Browning, Sordello. scritch1 (skrich), n. [ scritch1 , v .; a var. of screech, ult. of scrike , shrike , shriek. A shrill cry; a screech. To the that arte of cristen feyth, "Yffe thou labour, thou muste ete IMG:content-0390.png:[blocks in formation] script uri an (skrip-tū'ri-an), (skrip-tū'rin. [ scripture + -ian.] A Biblical scholar; a scripturist. [Rare.] Flo. Cursed be he that maketh debate 'twixt man and wife. Le . Oh, rare script uri an ! you have sealed up my lips. Chapman, Humorous Day's Mirth. Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 2, note 3. scritoire (skri-twor'), n. A variant of escritoire . scrivanot, n. [ scrivano , a writer, clerk: see scriven.] A writer; clerk; one who keeps ac- counts. The captain gaue order that I should deliuer all my mony with the goods into the hands of the scrivano , or purser of the ship. You do not know the quirks of a scrivano , A dash undoes a family, a point. Shirley, The Brothers, iv. 1. scrive (skriv), v. t.; pret. and pp. scrived , ppr. scriving. [A var. of scribe ; cf. descrive , describe .] 11. To write; describe. How mankinde dooth bigynne Is wondir for to scryue so. How happy in his low degree. Who leads a quiet country life, And from the griping scrivener free! When the lines of the sections or frames are accurately drawn, they are scratched or scrived in by a sharp-pointed tool. The arle, Naval Arch., § 144. a number of planks clamped edge to edge toge- ther and painted black, on which are marked with a sharp arp tool the lines of the sections or viously outlined. frames of an iron ship, which have been pre- scrivello (skri-vel'ō), n . [Origin obscure.] An elephant's tusk of le than 20 pounds in weight. Imp . Dict. scrivent (skriv'n), n. [ scriven , scrive in, escrivain , F. écrivain = Sp. escribano = Pg. escrivão = It. scrivano , scribanus , a writer, notary, clerk (cf. L. scriba , a scribe), scribe . Hence scrivener. The word scriven survives in the surname Scriven .] A writer; a notary. scrivent (skriv'n), v . t. and i. [ scriven , n.; or scrivener , regarded as formed with suffix -er1 from a verb: see scrivener .] To write; espe- cially, to write with the expansive wordine and repetitions characteristic of scriveners or lawyers. Here's a mortgage scrivened up to ten skins of parch ment, and the king's attorney general is content with six Roger North , Lord Guilford, II. 302. (Davies.) scrivener (skriv'nėer), n . [Early mod. E. also scrivenour ; scrivener , scryvener , screvener , skrivenere , with superfluous suffix -ere (E. -er1, -er2) (as in musicianer , parishioner , etc.), en , a notary: see scriven . Hence the surnames Scrivener, Scribner .] 1. A writer; especially, a public writer; a notary; specifically, one punctures; foveate. scrobiculated (skrō-bik'ū-lā-ted), a. [ biculate + -ed2.] Same as scrobiculate . scrobiculus (skrō-bik'ū-lus), n.; pl. scrobiculi (-li). [NL., scrobiculus , a little ditch or trench, dim. of scrobis , scrobs , a ditch, trench: see scrobe .] In an at ., a pit or depre ion; a fo a. Scrobiculus cord is, the pit of the stomach: Scrod is the name for a young codfish split and pre- pared for boiling. Amer . Angler , XVII. 333. scrodgill (skrod gil), n . [ scrod + gilll .] An instrument for taking fish, made of four fish- hooks with the shanks laid together and the points projecting at right angles, to be dragged or jerked through the water; a pull-devil. scrodgill (skrod gil), v. t. [ scrodgill , n.] To take or catch with a scrodgill. scrofula (skrof'ū-lä), n. [Formerly errone- ously scrophula , also scrofules , scrophules , scrofules , pl., = Sp. escrófula = Pg. escrofulas It. scrofula , scrofola = G. skrofeln = Sw. Dan. skrofler , pl., scrofula, scrofulæ , pl., scrofu- lous swellings, scrofula; perhaps so called from scrofula the swollen appearance of the glands, prop. pl. of * scrofula, a little sow, dim. of scrofa, a sow, so called with ref. to the rooting habit of swine, lit. a 'digger'; cf. scrobis, a ditch, from the same root as scribere, write, orig. scratch: see scrobe, screwl, etc.] A constitutional disorder, especially in the young, expre ing itself in lymphadenitis, especially glandular swellings in the neck, with a tendency to cheesy degeneration, inflammations of various joints, mucous membranes, and other structures, together with other le distinct indications of feeble health. The inflammations have been shown to be in most cases tubercular, and due to bacillary invasion. Also called struma and king's evil. See evil i. scrofulest, n. pl. [Also erroneously scrophules; A cataplasme of the leaves and hogs grease in corp or at togither doth resolve the scrophules or swelling kernels called the king's evill. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxii. 14. scrofulide (skrof'ū-lid), n. [ scrofulide .] Any affection of the skin regarded as of scrofulous origin. scrofulitic (skrof-ū-lit'ik), a. [ IMG:content-0391.png:[blocks in formation] Scrofulous absce , suppurative lymphadenitis of children, especially in the neck. - Scrofulous bubo, a scrofulous lymphadenitis. - Scrofulous ceratitis, a form of parenchymatous inflammation of the cornea seen in scrofulous subjects. scrofulously (skrofū-lus-li), adv. In a scrofu lous manner; with scrofula. scrofulousne (skrof'ū-lus-nes), n. Scrofulous character or condition. scrog (skrog), n. [Also a ibilated shrog; I cam in by yon greenwud, And doun amang the scrogs . Johnie of Cockles muir (Child's Ballads, VI. 18). At the foot of the mo behind Kirk Yetton (Caer Ket ton, wise men say) there is a scrog of low wood and a pool with a dam for washing sheep. R. L. Stevens on, Pastoral. 2. A small branch of a tree broken off; broken boughs and twigs; brushwood. "Scrogie Touchwood, if you please," said the senior; "the scrog branch first, for it must become rotten ere it become touchwood." Scott, St. Ronan's Well, xxxvi. 3. In her., a branch of a tree: a blazon sometimes used by Scottish heralds. [Scotch and prov. Eng. in all uses.] scroggy (skrog'i), a. [ME. scroggy, covered with underwood or straggling bushes; scrolar (skrō'lär), a. Pertaining to a scroll. -Scrolar line, a line lying in a surface, but not in one tangent plane.