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To scoff; to act disdainfully. He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And, now I remembered, scorned at me. Shak.

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

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

ce or expedience. We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. Fuller. Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. South.

hairs were changed upon my chin. Dryden. Right of search (Mar. Law), the right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of belligerent nations to examine and search private merchant vessels on the high seas, for the enemy's property or for articles contraband of war. -- Search warrant (Law), a warrant legally issued, au…

[So called in allusion to the tufts of feathers at the back of its head, which were fancifully thought to resemble pens stuck behind the ear.] (Zoöl.) A large long-legged raptorial bird (Gypogeranus serpentarius), native of South Africa, but now naturalized in the West Indies and some other tropical countries. It has…

To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.

other part, to prevent the one from slipping upon the other. -- Set speech, a speech carefully prepared before it is delivered in public; a formal or methodical speech.

To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away. [R.] Chesterfield.

to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip.

Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess. Spenser.

ceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon.

In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.

Spitefully. [Obs.] Chaucer.

or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.

sh, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad. They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. Matt. ix. 31.

pecially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.

In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.

A young chicken before it is fully fledged. [Prov. Eng.]