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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.

th 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.

A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. [Obs.]

resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

ean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. "Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingredients and fluxes.

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

An instrument for scraping the teeth.

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.

To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.