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Scrawl
Open directlyWebster'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.