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Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.

A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.

One who, or that which, screws.

a. & n. from Screw, v. t. Screwing machine. See Screw machine, under Screw.

A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.

Toward the shore.

ex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold. A man . . . grudgeth that shrews [i. e., bad men] have prosperity, or else that good men have adversity. Chaucer. A man had got a shrew to his wife, and there could be no quiet in the house for her. L'Estrange.

Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish. [Obs.] Chaucer. [Egypt] hath many shrewd havens, because of the great rocks that ben strong and dangerous to pass by. Sir J. Mandeville. Every of this happy number That have endured…

having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish. My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. Shak. -- Shrew"ish*ly, adv. -- Shrew"ish*ness, n.

A shrew; especially, the erd shrew.

Thrush. [Local, U.S.]

oosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about. Beaconsfield.…

Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.

Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. [Obs.] Shak.

p. p. of Strew.

To reward to an excessive degree. Bacon.

Increase; addition; surplus. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.

At that time; at the same time. [Obs.] Laud.

With that or this. "I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." Phil. iv. 11.