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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), a. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby. [1913 Webster] How solitary, how scrub, does this town look! --Walpole. [1913 Webster] No little scrub joint shall come on my board. --Swift. [1913 Webster] {Scrub game}, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. {Scrub race}, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scrubbed} (skr[u^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scrubbing}.] [OE. scrobben, probably of Dutch or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. skrubbe, Sw. skrubba, D. schrobben, LG. schrubben.] To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), v. i. To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), n. 1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. "A sorry scrub." --Bunyan. [1913 Webster] We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 2. Something small and mean. [1913 Webster] 3. A worn-out brush. --Ainsworth. [1913 Webster] 4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc. [1913 Webster] 5. (Stock Breeding) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] 6. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush; -- called also {scrub brush}. See {Brush}, above. [Australia & South Africa] [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] 7. (Forestry) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {Scrub bird} (Zool.), an Australian passerine bird of the family {Atrichornithidae}, as {Atrichia clamosa}; -- called also {brush bird}. {Scrub oak} (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is {Quercus ilicifolia}, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree ({Quercus Catesbaei}); that of the Rocky Mountain region is {Quercus undulata}, var. Gambelii. {Scrub robin} (Zool.), an Australian singing bird of the genus {Drymodes}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: scrub adj 1: (of domestic animals) not selectively bred n 1: dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes [syn: {scrub}, {chaparral}, {bush}] 2: the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water [syn: {scrub}, {scrubbing}, {scouring}] v 1: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back" [syn: {scrub}, {scour}] 2: wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation" [syn: {scrub}, {scrub up}] 3: postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting--the chair is ill" [syn: {cancel}, {call off}, {scratch}, {scrub}]