scrambled eggs

pl. 1. Eggs boiled, and mixed up in the shell, with vinegar, pepper and salt. [SCRABBED-EGGS.] 2 Eggs broken into the pan, stirred together, and lightly fried with butter, pepper, and salt. scrăm-bler, subst. [Eng.scrambl(e); -er.] One who scrambles. "All the little scramblers after fame fall upon him."Add is on: (Todd.) scrăm-bling, pr. par. or a. [SCRAMBLE, v.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Climbing or clambering; moving on all-fours. IMG:content-1063.png:[blocks in formation] scrăm-bling-ly, adv. [Eng. scrambling; -ly.] In a scrambling manner; with scrambling. scrănch, v . t. [Of imitative origin; cf. Dutch schransen to scraunch; German schranzen to eat greedily; English craunch, crunch, scrunch.] To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; tc craunch. scrăńk-ý, adj. [A nasalized form of scraggy (q. v.).) Lank, lean, slender. ( Scotch.) *scrăn-něl, adj . [Prob. connected with scrag ; cf. Irish & Gael. crion withered, little.) Thin, slender, poor, miserable. "When they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw." Milton: Lycidas , 123. scrăn-nỹ, adject. [SCRANNEL.] Thin, scraggy. (Prov.) scrăp, *scrappe, s . [Icel. skrap =scraps, trifles, from skrapa =to scrape, to scratch; Dan. skrab = scrapings, trash; skrabe to scrape; Sw. afskrap = scrapings, refuse, from scrap a to scrape (q. v.).] 1. Properly something scraped off; hence, a small piece, a fragment, a bit, a crumb. 2. A detached piece or fragment of anything written, printed, or spoken; a short or unconnected extract. 3. A picture or artistic production suitable for preservation in a scrap-book, or for ornamenting screens or the like; as, colored scraps. rendering of fat. 4. ( Pl . ): The integuments that remain after the 5. Broken iron, cast or wrought, for remelting or reworking; scrap-metal. 6. A fight. ( U.S. Slang .) scrap-book, s . A book for holding scraps; a blank book into which pictures, cuttings from news papers or books, short poems, ., are pasted for an album. preservation; an scrap-iron, scrap-forging, s . [SCRAP, 8., 5.] scrap-metal, s. A term applied to scraps or fragments of metal which are only of use for remelting. scrāpe, *scrap-en, *scrap-i-en, *shrap-en, *shrap-i-en, v . t . & i . [Icel. skrapa =to scrape; Sw. skrapa ; Dan. skrabe ; Dut. schrapen to scrape; A.S.scearpian =to scarify; scearp =sharp (q.v.).] A. Transitive : 1. To rub the surface of with a rough or sharp instrument; to deprive of the surface by the light abrading action of a sharp instrument; to grate, to abrade. 2. To clean by rubbing with something sharp or rough. 3. To remove or take off by rubbing; to erase. 4. To collect, gather, or accumulate by labor i ous effort; to gather by small savings or gains; to save or get together penuriously. (Generally followed by together or up .) "Scrape together the money for the rent."-London Times. drown the voice of at public meetings, by drawing 5. To expre disapprobation of, or attempt to the feet along the floor. (Followed by down .) "Another was coughed and scraped down."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xxii. 6. To shave. (Slang.) Colloq .) 2. The effect of scraping or rubbing; a scratch; as, a scrape of a pen. 3. An awkward bow, accompanied with a drawing back of the foot. 4. An awkward predicament; a difficulty; an embarra ing or perplexing situation; a perplexity; distre . "The too eager pursuit of this his old enemy through thick and thin has led him into many of these scrapes .' War burton: Divine Legation , bk. ii. IMG:content-1064.png:[blocks in formation] scrāp'-er, s. [Eng. scrap (e), v.; -er.] 1. One who or that which scrapes; specifically(1) A large hoe for cleaning roads and streets. (2) A thin piece of wood shaped like a knife blade and provided with a handle, used to scrape the sweat from horses. (3) An instrument, generally triangular, for scraiing and cleaning the planks, masts, and decks of ships. (4) An iron plate at a door to remove mud from the boots. "Never clean your shoes on the scraper , but in the entry, and the scraper will last the longer."-Swift: Instructions to Servants. (5) A form of cutting-tool for taking shavings from the edge of a blade. (6) A two-handled scoop, drawn by cattle or horses, and used in making and leveling roads, excavating ditches, canals, and cellars, and generally in raising and removing loosened soil or gravel to a short disfancel IMG:content-1065.png:[blocks in formation] a. Long horse-shoe flint scraper, from Su ex Downs, near Berlin Gap; b. Esquimaux flint scraper, mounted in handle of fo il ivory; c. Spoon-shaped flint scraper, from the Yorkshire Wolds. cal scraper may be defined as a broad flake, the point of which has been chipped to a semi-circular beveled edge round the margin of the inner face, similar in character to that of a round nosed burring chisel." -Evans : Ancient Stone Implements , p. 268. (8) Blast .: A spoon by which the detritus is re moved from the hole made by the drill. (9) Engrav .: A three-sided cutting-tool fluted, to mako it more easy to sharpen. It is used in taking off the bur left by the etching needle or dry-point, in obliterating lines, or working mezzotinto. (10) Lithog.: The board in a lithographic pre whose edge is lowered on to the tympan-sheet, to bring the requisite pre ure upon the paper, which lies upon the inked stone. (11) Stone : 1. To rub the surface of anything so as to produce a harsh noise; to remove the surface of anything by rubbing; to make a harsh noise. 2. To gather riches by small gains and savings; to be parsimonious. "Their scraping fathers."- Shakesp .: Richard II., v. 3. 3. To play awkwardly on a fiddle or similar instrument. 4. To make an awkward bow, with a drawing back of the foot. To scrape acquaintance with any one: To make one's self acquainted; to insinuate one's self into acquaintance or familiarity with a person. *scrape-good, a. Miserly, stingy. at an angle of 60. 2. An awkward fiddler. 3. One who scrapes together money by laborious parsimony; a scrape-penny. *scrape-scall, s. (First element scrape ; etym. of second element doubtful.] à miser, a scrapepenny. ( Withal : Dict.)