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Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag." Shak.

ff, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap. He's a nimble fellow, And alike skilled in every liberal science, As having certain snaps of all. B. Jonson.

A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap. We have often little snatches of sunshine. Spectator. Leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer. Shak.

Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc. [Written also squillgee, squillagee, squeegee.]…

An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.

Scraping; that which is scraped off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.

ting persons in sickness. -- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. -- Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. -- Sweating sickness (Med.), a febr…

Thunderous; sonorous. "Scraps of thunderous epic." Tennyson.

To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. That wicked wight his days doth wear. Spenser. The waters wear the stones. Job xiv. 19.

An instrument for scraping bone.