Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scrub; a miser.
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Examples
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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
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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
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I never thought I should have been such a scrib-bler.
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He released the lock, slipped inside the bin, lit a candle, and scrib - bled a carefully worded note.
Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000
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Ungava in the east was slashed across by its innumerable lakes, rocky ridges, scrib forests and bogs, almost inpenetrable in spots.
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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
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Intriguingly, the JNK activity seems to spread from scrib - cells via a mysterious, domino-type effect.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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RasV12 exists in one group of cells, and scrib - exists in a nearby group of cells.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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RasV12 exists in one group of cells, and scrib - exists in a nearby group of cells.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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RasV12 plus scrib - combination, they found the signaling pathway that mediates the interaction.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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