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To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.

A turf. [Obs.] Swift.

See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.

One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.

Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.

Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.

and motions of the limbs; to scramble in creeping. The birds were not fledged; but upon sprawling and struggling to get clear of the flame, down they tumbled. L'Estrange.

Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.

Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.

An instrument to cut straw for fodder.

which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species. Strawberry bass. (Zoöl.) See Calico bass, under Calico. -- Strawberry blite. (Bot.) See under Blite. -- Strawberry borer (Zoöl.),…

Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.

imp. & p. p. of Straw. [Obs.]

A caddice worm.

Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw. Shak.

See Throse. [Scot.] Burns.

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.