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15 words match “SCRIBBLE”

SCRIBBLE v. 5 definitions
To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
SCRIBBLEMENT n.
A scribble. [R.] oster.
SCRIBBLER n. 2 definitions
One who scribles; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.
BESCRIBBLE v.
To scribble over. "Bescribbled with impertinences." Milton.
TRANSCRIBBLER n.
A transcriber; -- used in contempt. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. Gray.
BESCRAWL v.
To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.
INSUFFERABLE a.
Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. Dryden.
PAMPHLETEER n.
A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.
PESTER v.
ass with petty vexations. We are pestered with mice and rats. Dr. H. More. A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world. Dryden.
SCRABBLE v. 3 definitions
To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl. David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate. 1. Sam. xxi. 13.
SCRAWL v.
o draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.
SCRIBBLING n.
ng machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
VOCATION n.
ness, or profession. What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous Dryden.
WOOL n.
), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum) with numerous clustered woolly spikes. -- Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a. -- Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep. -- Wool staple, a city or town where wool…
WOOLEN a.
to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers.