Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scrub; a miser.

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Examples

  • The other gene, scrib -, a non-functioning mutant of a tumor-suppressor gene known as scrib, by itself causes cells to die.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • I stoped playing about a month ago…..love the game but im done paying monthly sub scrib for now………cool comm Scott

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - In case you missed the Mr. T WoW ad 2007

  • I never thought I should have been such a scrib-bler.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • He released the lock, slipped inside the bin, lit a candle, and scrib - bled a carefully worded note.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • Ungava in the east was slashed across by its innumerable lakes, rocky ridges, scrib forests and bogs, almost inpenetrable in spots.

    Defence and the North 1956

  • Here it strikes three o'clock: the post knell, not bell, tolls here, and I must send off my scrib: but I will tell you, though I need not, that, now I have taken up Metastasio again, I work at him in every uninterrupted moment.

    The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

  • Intriguingly, the JNK activity seems to spread from scrib - cells via a mysterious, domino-type effect.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • RasV12 exists in one group of cells, and scrib - exists in a nearby group of cells.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • RasV12 exists in one group of cells, and scrib - exists in a nearby group of cells.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • RasV12 plus scrib - combination, they found the signaling pathway that mediates the interaction.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

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