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scrub

 

  6  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scrub  \Scrub\,  a. 
  Mean  dirty;  contemptible;  scrubby. 
 
  How  solitary,  how  scrub,  does  this  town  look! 
  --Walpole. 
 
  No  little  scrub  joint  shall  come  on  my  board.  --Swift. 
 
  {Scrub  game},  a  game,  as  of  ball,  by  unpracticed  players. 
 
  {Scrub  race},  a  race  between  scrubs,  or  between  untrained 
  animals  or  contestants. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scrub  \Scrub\,  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scrub  \Scrub\,  n. 
  1.  One  who  labors  hard  and  lives  meanly;  a  mean  fellow.  ``A 
  sorry  scrub.''  --Bunyan. 
 
  We  should  go  there  in  as  proper  a  manner  possible; 
  nor  altogether  like  the  scrubs  about  us 
  --Goldsmith. 
 
  2.  Something  small  and  mean 
 
  3.  A  worn-out  brush.  --Ainsworth. 
 
  4.  A  thicket  or  jungle,  often  specified  by  the  name  of  the 
  prevailing  plant;  as  oak  scrub,  palmetto  scrub,  etc 
 
  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.] 
 
  {Scrub  bird}  (Zo["o]l.),  an  Australian  passerine  bird  of  the 
  family  {Atrichornithid[ae]},  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  ({Q. 
  Catesb[ae]i});  that  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  region  is  {Q. 
  undulata},  var.  Gambelii. 
 
  {Scrub  robin}  (Zo["o]l.),  an  Australian  singing  bird  of  the 
  genus  {Drymodes}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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.  sckrubbe  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scrub  \Scrub\,  n. 
  1.  Vegetation  of  inferior  quality,  though  sometimes  thick  and 
  impenetrable,  growing  in  poor  soil  or  in  sand;  also 
  brush.  See  {Brush},  above. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  scrub 
  adj  1:  of  inferior  or  mixed  breed;  "a  cur  dog";  "an  underbred  dog" 
  [syn:  {cur(a)},  {mixed},  {mongrel(a)},  {scrub(a)},  {underbred}] 
  2:  (of  domestic  animals)  not  selectively  bred 
  n  1:  dense  vegetation  consisting  of  stunted  trees  or  bushes  [syn: 
  {chaparral},  {bush}] 
  2:  the  act  of  cleaning  a  surface  by  rubbing  it  with  a  brush  and 
  soap  and  water  [syn:  {scrubbing},  {scouring}] 
  v  1:  clean  with  hard  rubbing;  "She  scrubbed  his  back"  [syn:  {scour}] 
  2:  wash  thoroughly;  of  surgeons  before  an  operation  [syn:  {scrub 
  up}]




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