Scrib"ble, v. i. To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite.
Pope.
Scrib"ble, n. Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a
scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. Boyle.
Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble.
Bunyan.
Scrib"ble*ment (?), n. A scribble. [R.] Foster.
Scrib"bler (?), n. One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no
reputation; a literary hack.
The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine.
Granville.
Scrib"bler, n. A scribbling machine.
Scrib"bling (?), n. [See 1st Scribble.] The act or process of carding
coarsely.
Scribbling machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or
other fiber; -- called also scribbler.
Scrib"bling, a. Writing hastily or poorly.
Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks!
Goldsmith.
Scrib"bling, n. The act of writing hastily or idly.
Scrib"bling*ly, adv. In a scribbling manner.
Scribe (skrb), n. [L. scriba, fr. scribere to write; cf. Gr. ska`rifos
a splinter, pencil, style (for writing), E. scarify. Cf. Ascribe,
Describe, Script, Scrivener, Scrutoire.] 1. One who writes; a
draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public
writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
2. (Jewish Hist.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the
law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
Scribe (skrb), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribed (skrbd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Scribing.] 1. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. Spenser.
2. (Carp.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a
somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of
level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called
because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that
he afterwards cuts.