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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), verb (used without an object) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), noun
1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. ''A sorry scrub.'' --Bunyan.
We should go there in as proper a manner as possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us. --Goldsmith.
2. Something small and mean.
3. A worn-out brush. --Ainsworth.
4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
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.]
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] [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
7. (Forestry) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Scrub bird} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian passerine bird of the family {Atrichornithid[ae]}, 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. Catesb[ae]i}); that of the Rocky Mountain region is {Q. undulata}, var. Gambelii.
{Scrub robin} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian singing bird of the genus {Drymodes}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), adjective Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
How solitary, how scrub, does this town look! --Walpole.
No little scrub joint shall come on my board. --Swift.
{Scrub game}, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players.
{Scrub race}, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Scrubbed} (skr[u^]bd); 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scrub
adjective: (of domestic animals) not selectively bred
noun
1: dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes [syn: {chaparral}, {bush}]
2: the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water [syn: {scrubbing}, {scouring}]
verb
1: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back" [syn: {scour}]
2: wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation" [syn: {scrub up}] [also: {scrubbing}, {scrubbed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
234 Moby Thesaurus words for "scrub": a nobody, a nothing, abandon, ablate, ablation, ablution, abort, abrade, abrase, abrasion, abrasive, afforestation, arboretum, attrition, baptize, bark, bath, bathe, belay, boondocks, bramble, brier, brier bush, brush, brushwood, buff, buffing, burnishing, bush, bushveld, call off, cancel, cease, chafe, chafing, chase, cipher, cleaning out, cleanse, climax forest, cloud forest, common man, cut it out, dendrology, desist, detrition, discontinue, do away with, douche, douching, dressing, drop, drop it, dummy, elution, elutriation, end, enema, erase, erasure, erode, erosion, figurehead, file, filing, flush, flush out, flushing, flushing out, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fray, frazzle, fret, fretting, fringing forest, gall, gallery forest, galling, gargle, give over, give up, gnaw, gnaw away, grate, graze, grazing, greenwood, grind, grinding, halt, hanger, have done with, hold, holystone, index forest, insignificancy, irrigate, irrigation, jackstraw, jungle, jungles, knock it off, lather, lathering, launder, lavabo, lavage, lavation, lave, laving, lay off, leave off, lightweight, limation, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, mop, mop up, mopping, mopping up, national forest, nebbish, nobody one knows, nonentity, obscurity, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, pip-squeak, polish, polishing, poor relation, primeval forest, protection forest, punk, quit, rain forest, rasp, rasping, raze, reforestation, refrain, relinquish, renounce, rinse, rinse out, rinsing, ritually immerse, rub, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubbing away, runt, sandblasting, sanding, scour, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub up, scrubbing, scrubbing up, scrubland, scrubwood, scuff, secondary, selection forest, shampoo, shining, shower, shrimp, shrub, shrubbery, shrubland, shrubwood, silviculture, skin, sluice, sluice out, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, smoothing, soap, soaping, sponge, sponging, sprout forest, squirt, squit, stand of timber, state forest, stay, stop, subaltern, subordinate, swab, swabbing, syringe, terminate, timber, timberland, toivel, tree veld, tub, underling, understrapper, virgin forest, wash, wash out, wash up, washing, washing up, washout, washup, wear, wear away, wearing away, whiffet, whippersnapper, wildwood, wiping up, wood, woodland, woods
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