SCRIM, _s._ Very thin coa.r.s.e cloth, used for making blinds for windows, buckram, &c. S. B.

_Stat. Acc._

_To_ SCRYM, _v. n._ To skirmish.

_Barbour._

Germ. _schirm-en_, _scrim-en_, pugilare.

~Scrymmage~, _s._ A skirmish.

_Wallace._

_To_ SCRIMP, SKRIMP, _v. a._

1. To straiten, as to food or money, S.

_Ramsay._

2. To straiten, in a general sense, S.

_Ross._

Germ. _schrump-en_, Su. G. _skrump-a_, corrugari.

~Scrimp~, _adj._

1. Scanty, narrow, S. _scrimpit_.

_Ross._

2. Contracted; applied to clothes, S.

_Ramsay._

3. Limited, not ample.

_Wodrow._

4. Deficient, as to mind.

_Ramsay._

~Scrimply~, _adv._ Sparingly, S.

_Walker._

SCRYNOCH, _s._

V. ~Scroinoch~.

SCRIP, _s._ A mock.

V. ~Scorp~.

_Wallace._

SCRIPTURE, _s._ A pencase.

Fr. _escriptoire_, id.

_Douglas._

SCROG, _s._ A stunted shrub, S.

_Lyndsay._

Germ. _schrag_, obliquus.

~Scroggy~, ~Skroggy~, _adj._

1. Stunted, S.

_Douglas._

2. Abounding with stunted bushes, S.

_Ramsay._

SCROINOCH, SCRYNOCH, _s._ Noise, tumult, Aberd.

_Shirrefs._

Sw. _skraen_, clamor stridulus.

SCROOFE, SCRUFE, _s._

1. A thin crust of any kind, S.

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