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scambling
▪ I. scambling, vbl. n. (ˈskæmblɪŋ) [-ing1.] The action of the vb. scamble.c 1538 R. Cowley in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 98 Such havok and skameling as they make was never seen, to the utter pilling and beggering of the land. 1584 Leycesters Commonw. 106 And how so euer thes two conioyned Earle...
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scamble
▪ I. ˈscamble, n.1 Sc. and north. Forms: 5 skamyll, 9 skemmel; 6 pl. skaymlis, scamles, scamells, scambills, skemlis, 7 skemmillis. [Northern var. of shamble n.; prob. due to Scandinavian influence; cf. ON. skemill, Da. skammel footstool.] 1. A bench; now, ‘a kind of long form used in a farm-house k...
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Lophospermum purpusii
Lophospermum purpusii is a scambling or climbing herbaceous perennial native to Mexico (the states of Oaxaca and Puebla).
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scrambling
▪ I. scrambling, vbl. n. (ˈskræmblɪŋ) [-ing1.] a. The action of the vb. scramble; an instance of this.1598 Chapman Achilles Shield Ded., His [Virgil's] skirmishes are but meere scramblings of boyes to Homers. 1641 Milton Ch. Discip. i. 9 The Bishops, when they see him tottering, will leave him, and ...
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Lophospermum scandens
Lophospermum scandens is a scambling or climbing herbaceous perennial native to south central Mexico, with red-violet and white tubular flowers and toothed
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untrimmed
unˈtrimmed, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] 1. Not put in good order or condition; not carefully or neatly arranged or attired. In quot. 1595 the word has been variously explained, and may be formed on untrim v.1532 G. Hervet Xenophon's Househ. 18 b, The horse beareth hym..that wyll se the grounde be nat let alon...
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thorn-tree
ˈthorn-tree a. A tree having or bearing thorns; in Great Britain, usually a hawthorn tree; in southern Africa, usually an acacia.1483 Cath. Angl. 384/1 A Thorne tree, mespula, rampnus. 1785 G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape of Good Hope I. ix. 324 Being once upon a plain under the shelter of a few...
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shuffle
▪ I. shuffle, n. (ˈʃʌf(ə)l) [f. shuffle v.] † 1. A shifting from one place to another; an interchange of positions. Obs.1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 100 The very life and soul of motion is shuffle or sawing. 1692 Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 27 The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of Matter. 2. A tric...
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weigh
▪ I. weigh, n.1 (weɪ) Forms: 1 wǽᵹ(e, wéᵹ, 2 wæiȝe, 3 weie, 4 waye, weih, weȝe, 4–5 weigh(e, 5, 9 wee, 5–7, 9 dial. wey, 6 wye, 7–9 way, 9 dial. weigh. [OE. wǽᵹ str. fem., wǽᵹe wk. fem. (both meaning ‘balance’ and ‘weight’; see wey), corresp. to OS. wâga (MLG. wâge, MDu. wâghe, Du. waag; see waw n.2...
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cut
▪ I. cut, n.1 (kʌt) Also cutt, -e. [Origin and original sense uncertain. This has been usually regarded as merely a special use of cut n.2 (under which it is still treated in recent dictionaries); but to this identification two considerations are opposed. First, cut ‘the act or result of cutting’ is...
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