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The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper.

In a scrappy manner; in scraps. Mary Cowden Clarke.

An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.

Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture. A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray.

A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. [Obs.]

A kind of cotton crape.

resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

an, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. "Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

Same as Crape.

To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. Drayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.

Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingredients and fluxes.

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning. [Obs.] Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Shak.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.

To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap. Carleton.