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One who recriminates.

Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.

r formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

One who reprimands.

A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

To trim again.

Refuse; dregs. [R.]

An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [Written also saccharometer.]

Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained saccharimetry.

The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters.

ric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim.

A fencing master. [Obs.] Shak.

Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.

limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.

a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t. Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing. Knight.

In a scrimping manner.

The state of being scrimp.

A small portion; a pittance; a little bit. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed. [Sailor's cant, U.S.]