SCRAWL

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.

2.
v.

To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.

3.
v.

To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.

4.
n.

Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. The left will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.

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