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Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.

tually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.

To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.

That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. (Biol.) See under Natural.

A body of servants; servants, collectively. [R.]

Servants, collectively. [Obs.] After him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and numerous servitude. Milton.

Servants, collectively. [Obs.]

way; to begin; to give a start to. [Obs.] If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. Collier. -- To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method. "The rest will I set in order when I come." 1 Cor. xi. 34. -- To set milk. (a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream may rise t…

The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.]

Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.

Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect. Ashmole.

A fold or pen for sheep; a place where sheep are collected or confined.

Material for shelves; shelves, collectively.

Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.

The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.

To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

In shore, near the shore. Marryat. -- On shore. See under On. -- Shore birds (Zoöl.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. -- Shore crab (Zoöl.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of Ca…

A system of props; props, collectively.