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State of being current; currency; popularity. it is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humor. Addison.

A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture. "By ruption or apertion." Wiseman.

a Russian, favors Russian policy and aggrandizement. -- Rus*soph"ilism, n. [Chiefly newspaper words.]

One who dreads Russia or Russian influence. [Words sometimes found in the newspapers.]

s a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for money, valuable papers, or the like.

Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

d in the process. -- Sand box. (a) A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling paper with sand. (b) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent slipping. -- Sand-box tree (Bot.), a tropical American tree (Hura crepitans). Its fruit is a depressed…

A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag. [Spelled also sachel.] The whining schoolboy with his satchel. Shak.

Made from scammony; as, a scammoniate aperient.

e which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.

A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.

lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick. Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. Evelyn. Golden sconces hang not on the walls. Dryden.

To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.

A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

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

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

A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing. Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip. Shak. Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin. Locke.

A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list. The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. Isa. xxxiv. 4. Here is the scroll of every man's name. Shak.

A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.

The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.