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The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye. Greenhill.

An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.

Pertaining to sciagraphy. -- Sci`a*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Same as Siagraph.

See Sciagraphy.

An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing. Maunder.

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey.

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

pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically:

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.

coloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

, n. A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it.