See Also: horrify(dictionary)
horrify(dictionary)
scrape(medicine)
scrape(1)(dictionary)
scrape(2)(dictionary)
scrape(dictionary)
scrape-off layer(medicine)
scrape 1, verb(dictionary)
scrape 2, noun(dictionary)

scrape(1) (iou) and horrify (iou)


scrape(1) (iou)



scrape noun1. LME.
[from SCRAPE verb.]
I.
An instrument for scraping, a scraper. Long rare or obsolete. LME.
R. Holme An Irone Scrape..set in a wooden handle..for the skullion to scrape..the furnice hole.
a. A piece scraped off. Only in LME.
b. A place where soil etc. has been scraped away; a bare place on a hillside etc., a hollow formed by scraping; spec. a shallow pit dug in the ground by a bird, esp. during a courtship display. L18.
E. A. Armstrong An unmated female red-necked phalarope makes scrapes in the herbage. P. Matthiessen On the ledge path we find..half a dozen scrapes..in the snow. B. Oddie Before Cley reserve acquired its..scrapes and lagoons.
c. A layer of thinly spread butter. Chiefly in bread and scrape below. M19.
bread and scrape: see BREAD noun1.
d. Crude turpentine obtained by scraping or cutting into the trunk of a pine or fir tree. US. M19.
e. The part of the cane on a woodwind instrument that is scraped to a narrow edge in the production of a reed. M20.
Early Music There are 3 basic scrapes..of which no.1 is the most common.
gen. An act or sound of scraping. L15.
R. Dahl He heard..the scrape..of shovels digging into the soil.
b. An awkward or obsequious bow or salutation in which one foot is drawn backwards on the ground. E17.
S. Lover To every one of these assurances..Andy made a bow and a scrape.
c. scrape of a pen, scrape of the pen, a hasty scribble, a small scrap of Writing. Scot. L17.
d. A drawing of a bow over the strings of a violin. E19.
J. Austen No sound of a Ball but the first Scrape of one violin.
e. A shave. joc. M19.
f. Dilatation of the cervix and curettage of the uterus; spec. an induced abortion. colloq. M20.
A person who uses excessive economy, a miser. obsolete exc. Scot. & dial. E18.
II.
An embarrassing or awkward predicament or situation, esp. one resulting from an unwise escapade. E18.
R. Macaulay I..hope she won't get into some real scrape and land in a police court. A. Bishop His liveliness got him into constant scrapes.
A hand-to-hand fight, a skirmish, a brawl. US colloq. (now rare). E19.

horrify (iou)



horrify verb trans. L18.
[Latin horrificare, from horrificus: see HORRIFICATION, -FY.]
Excite horror in; shock, scandalize.
A. C. Boult She was horrified one day to find three grand-daughters turning cartwheels across the room. J. Heller She is..ready to take chances that horrify even me.
horrifiedly adverb in a horrified manner E20.