Definition of scratch

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Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

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Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash..
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
Pricking-up :: Pricking-up (n.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
Mar :: Mar (n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement..
Claw :: Claw (n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court..
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy..
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch..
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision..
Scratchy :: Scratchy (a.) Characterized by scratches.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out..
Aciculated :: Aciculated (a.) Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
Scratch Coat :: Scratch coat () The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
Shab :: Shab (v. t.) To scratch; to rub.
Sgraffito :: Sgraffito (a.) Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath..
Scratched :: Scratched (imp. & p. p.) of Scratc.
Yuck :: Yuck (v. t.) To scratch.
Scrat :: Scrat (v. t.) To scratch.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like..
Scratching :: Scratching (adv.) With the action of scratching.
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