SCRUB
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Scrub (skrŭb), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrubbed (skrŭbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrubbing.] [OE. scrobben, probably of Dutch or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. skrubbe, Sw. skrubba, D. schrobben, LG. schrubben.] To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
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Scrub (skrŭb), v. i. To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
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Scrub (skrŭb), n. 1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. “A sorry scrub.” Bunyan.
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We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
Goldsmith.
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2. Something small and mean.
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3. A worn-out brush. Ainsworth.
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4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
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5. (Stock Breeding) One of the common live stock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when inferior in size, etc. [U.S.]
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6. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush; -- called also scrub brush. See Brush, above. [Australia & South Africa]
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7. (Forestry) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
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Scrub bird (Zo&ö;l.), an Australian passerine bird of the family Atrichornithidæ, as Atrichia clamosa; -- called also brush bird. -- Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub; that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q. Catesbæi); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q. undulata, var. Gambelii. -- Scrub robin (Zo&ö;l.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.
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Scrub (skrŭb), a. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
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How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
Walpole.
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No little scrub joint shall come on my board.
Swift.
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Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.
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