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Bescribble
Bescribble Be*scrib"ble, v. t. To scribble over. ``Bescribbled with impertinences.' --Milton.
Cribbing
Cribbing Crib"bing (kr?b"b?ng), n. 1. The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters. 2. Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. [Colloq.] 3. (Mining) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc. 4. A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.
Cribble
Cribble Crib"ble, a. Coarse; as, cribble bread. [Obs.] --Huloet.
Scribble
Scribble Scrib"ble, v. t. [Cf. Scrabble.] (Woolen Manuf.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Scribble
Scribble Scrib"ble, n. Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. --Boyle. Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble. --Bunyan.
Scribblement
Scribblement Scrib"ble*ment, n. A scribble. [R.] --Foster.
Scribbler
Scribbler Scrib"bler, n. One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. --Granville.
Scribbler
Scribbler Scrib"bler, n. A scribbling machine.
scribbler
Scribbling Scrib"bling, n. [See 1st Scribble.] The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
Scribbling
Scribbling Scrib"bling, n. [See 1st Scribble.] The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
Scribbling
Scribbling Scrib"bling, a. Writing hastily or poorly. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! --Goldsmith.
Scribbling
Scribbling Scrib"bling, n. The act of writing hastily or idly.
scribbling lark
Yellowhammer Yel"low*ham`mer, n. [For yellow-ammer, where ammer is fr. AS. amore a kind of bird; akin to G. ammer a yellow-hammer, OHG. amero.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark. [Written also yellow-ammer.] (b) The flicker. [Local, U. S.]
Scribbling machine
Scribbling Scrib"bling, n. [See 1st Scribble.] The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
Scribblingly
Scribblingly Scrib"bling*ly, adv. In a scribbling manner.
Transcribbler
Transcribbler Tran*scrib"bler (tr[a^]n*skr[i^]b"bl[~e]r), n. A transcriber; -- used in contempt. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. --Gray.
Woolen scribbler
Woolen Wool"en, a. [OE. wollen; cf. AS. wyllen. See Wool.] [Written also woollen.] 1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining 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.

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