scribbler2 (skribler)

[ fellow. By your grave and high demeanour make yourself appear a hole above Obadiah, lest your mistre should take you for another scribble- scrabble as he is. Sir R. Howard , The Committee, i. ( Davies .) scribbling1 (skrib'ling), n. [Verbal n. of scrib blel, v.] The act of writing hastily and carele ly. or uneven form. II. in trans. To write. It's a hard case, you must needs think, madam, to a mother to see a son that might do whatever he would, if he'd only set about it, contenting himself with doing nothing but scribble and scribe . Mi Burney , Cecilia, x. 6. (Davies.) scribe (skrib), n. [ scribe , scribe = Sp. Pg. escriba = It. scriba , scriba , a writer, scribe, scribere , write: see scribe , v . In def. 4 the noun is of mod. E. origin, from the verb.] 1. One who writes; a writer; a pen man; especially, one skilled in penmanship. O excellent device! was there ever heard a better, That my master, being scribe , to himself should write the letter? Shak ., T. G. of V., ii. 1. 146. He is no great scribe ; rather handling the pen like the pocket staff he carries about with him. Dickens , Bleak House, liii. 2. An official or public writer; a secretary; an amanuensis; a notary; a copyist. There-at Jove wexed wroth, and in his spright Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; And bade Dan Phœbus scribe her Appellation seale. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vi. 35. Among other Officers of the Court, Stephen Gardner, afterward Bishop of Winchester, sat as chief Scribe . Baker , Chronicles, p. 276. 3. In Scripture usage: ( a ) One whose duty it was to keep the official records of the Jewish nation, or to act as the private secretary of some distinguished person (Esther iii. 12). (b) One of a body of men who constituted the theologians and jurists of the Jewish nation in the time of Christ. Their function was a threefold one-to develop the law, both written and traditional, to teach it to their pupils, and to administer it as learned interpreters in the courts of justice. And he gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, & asked them where Christ shulde be born. Bible of 1551, Mat. ii. 4. functions, teachings, and literature of the an cient Hebrew scribes. Then follows a section on Scribism , giving an account of the Jewish canon and its profe ional interpretation. British Quarterly Rev., LXXXIII. 497. scrid (skrid), n. Same as screed. [Rare.] scrienet, n. An obsolete spelling of screen. scrieve (skrēv), v. i.; pret. and pp. scrieved, ppr. scrieving. [ The wheels o' life gae down-hill scrievin ' , Wi' rattlin' glee. Burns, Scotch Drink. scriggle (skrig'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. scriggled, ppr. scriggling. [Prob. a var. of * scruggle, freq. of scrug, the earlier form of shrug, q. v.; with the sense partly due to a ociation with wriggle. Otherwise, perhaps ult. They skriggled and began to scold, But laughing got the master. Bloom field , The Horkey. ( Davies .) scriggle (skrig'l), n. [ scriggle , v.] A wriggle; a wriggling. A flitter of spawn that, unvivified by genial spirit, seems to give for a time a sort of ineffectual crawl, and then subsides into stinking stillne , unproductive of so much as the scriggle of a single tadpole. Noctes Ambrosianæ , April, 1832. scriket, v. i. [Early mod. E. also skrike and scriek (also screak , q. v.); the earlier (una ibilated) form of shrike , shriek : see shrikel, shriek .] To shriek. The litle babe did loudly scrike and squall. Spenser, F. Q., VI. iv. 18. Woe, and alas! the people crye and skrike , Why fades this flower, and leaues nee fruit nor seede? Putten ham , Par then i a des, ix. scrim (skrim), n. [Origin obscure.] 1. Thin, strong cloth, cotton or linen, used in uphol- stery and other arts for linings, etc.-2. pl . Thin canvas glued on the inside of a panel to keep it from cracking or breaking. E. H. Knight . scrime (skrim), v. i.; pret. and pp. scrimed , ppr. scriming . [ skirmish .] To fence; play with the sword. The fellow did not fight with edge and buckler, like a Christian, but had some newfangled French devil's device of scryming and foining with his point, ha'ing and stamping, and tracing at me, that I expected to be full of eyelet holes ere I close with him. Kingsley, Westward Ho, iii. scrimert (skrī'mėr), n. [ F.escrimeur , a fencer, a swordsman, escrimer , fence: see scrime . The AS. scrimbre , a gladiator (Lye), is appar. a late scrimer form, The scrimers of their nation, He swore, had neither motion, guard, nor eye, If you opposed them. Shak ., Hamlet, iv. 7. 101.