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Scrawl

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. The left will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To 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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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