| scraw | On the memo was scrawled, 'have her practice floating in the water.' |
| Scraw | n. [ Ir. scrath a turf, sgraith a turf, green sod; akin to Gael. sgrath, sgroth, the outer skin of anything, a turf, a green sod. ] A turf. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Scrawl | v. i. See Crawl. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Scrawl | v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. [ 1913 Webster ] Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Scrawl | n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. [ 1913 Webster ] The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ] You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Scrawl | v. t. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Scrawler | n. One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Scrawny | a. [ Cf. Scrannel. ] Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| scrawler | (n) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read, Syn. scribbler |
| scrawniness | (n) the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality, Syn. scrubbiness, Example: the scrawniness of sickly trees |
| scrawny | (adj) inferior in size or quality, Syn. stunted, scrubby, Example: scrawny cattle; scrubby cut-over pine; old stunted thorn trees |