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To scratch. [Obs.] Burton.

ss, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like. Small sand-colored stones, so hard as to scratch glass.Grew. Be mindful, when invention fails., To scratch your head, and bite your nails.Swift.

The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.

One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.

A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons. [Eng.]

A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

One who, or that which, scratches; specifically (Zoöl.), any rasorial bird.

With the action of scratching.

Cleavers.

See Scratch coat.

Characterized by scratches.

To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. Lindley.

A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.…

- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.

To fight and scratch. C. Smart.

To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.

to recover one's senses. -- To come to pass, to happen; to fall out. -- To come to the scratch. (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] -- To come to time. (a) (Pri…

To scratch. [Obs.] Chaucer.