A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also
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a. [ F., n. ] (Arch.) Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. ] (Far.) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. crêpe, fr. L. crispus curled, crisped. See Crisp. ] A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen. [ 1913 Webster ]
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Crape myrtle (Bot.),
Oriental crape.
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The hour for curling and craping the hair. Mad. D'Arblay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a fern of New Zealand (Leptopteris superba) with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea.
n. Salted codfish hardened by pressure. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a tropical shrub (Tabernaemontana divaricata), native to India, having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; Northern India to Thailand.
n. an tall East Indian and Chinese shrub (Lagerstroemia indica of the loosestrife family, commonly planted in Southern and Western U. S. as an ornamental shrub. It has clusters of red, white, purple, or pink flowers.
n. a game in which two play solitaire with separate packs.
n. A hook or drag; a grapnel. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. same as bullshit. [ vulgar ] [ PJC ]
v. i. (Games) to throw a 2, 3, or 12 on the first throw in the game of craps, thereby losing that turn. [ PJC ]
n. a toilet. [ vulgar ]
n. (Zool.) A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus
n. [ See Graple. ] A claw. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. of very poor quality. [ slang ]
n. A gambling game with dice. It is one of the more popular games in casinos. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
. Same as Craps. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Resembling crape. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap trifle, cracking. See Scrape, v. t. ]
I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Scrap forgings,
Scrap iron.
n. A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept. [ 1913 Webster ]
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I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. Ezek. xxvi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]
The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
To scrape acquaintance,
He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed ignominiously. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]
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The too eager pursuit of this his old enemy through thick and thin has led him into many of these scrapes. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which, scrapes;
adv. In a scrappy manner; in scraps. Mary Cowden Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Dim. of scrap. ] An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency;
A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. A kind of cotton crape. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]