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iece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample. [Obs.] Such as exceed not this scantling; -- to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people. Bacon. A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years. Milton.

One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. [Obs.] "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.

Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.

Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. Sir W. Scott.

In a scowling manner.

Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.

Writing hastily or poorly. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

In a scribbling manner.

The color so laid on. Also used figuratively. Shining above the brown scumbling of leafless orchards. L. Wallace.

The rock pipit.

A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.

A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. [Obs.] Sandys.

Having the power or property of healing itself.

of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.

The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton. Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market.

Characterized by an awkward, irregular pace; as, a shambling trot; shambling legs.

A stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]

man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt. I am no longer a shaveling than while my frock is on my back. Sir W. Scott.