Scrape , n.
1. The act
of scraping; also, the effect of scraping, as a scratch, or
a harsh sound; as, a noisy scrape on the floor;
a scrape of a pen.
2. A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment.
H. Spencer.
3. A disagreeable and
embarrassing predicament out of which
one can not
get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty.
The too eager
pursuit of this his old
enemy through thick and thin has led
him into many of these
scrapes.
Bp. Warburton.
Scrape , v. i. 1. To
rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which
smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.
2. To occupy one's
self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich. "[Spend]
their scraping fathers' gold."
Shak.
3. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.
4. To draw back the
right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
Scrape (skrāp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scraped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scraping.]
[Icel. skrapa; akin to Sw. skrapa, Dan. skrabe, D.
schrapen, schrabben, G. schrappen,
and prob. to E.
sharp.] 1. To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp
or rough instrument; to rub over with
something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to
make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of
an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to
scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.
2. To remove by
rubbing or scraping (in the sense above).
I
will also scrape her dust from her, and make
her like the top of a rock.
Ezek. xxvi.
4. 3. To collect by, or as by, a process of
scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often
followed by together
or up; as, to scrape money together.
The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers.
Fuller. 4. To express disapprobation of, as a play, or to silence, as a
speaker, by drawing the feet back and
forth upon the floor; -- usually with down.
Macaulay.
To scrape acquaintance,
to seek acquaintance otherwise than by an introduction. Farquhar.
He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed ignominiously.
G. W. Cable.
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