Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as scroll.
  • noun 2. A thin incrustation, sometimes calcareous and sometimes silicious, upon the wall of a lode: so called as peeling off like a scroll.

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Examples

  • - Combine the scrowl hold with the scrowl head to make the scrowl scepter. (freezes time) - Find the monster trap DVD in the girls room.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Combine the rope and magnet to grapple on the scrowl head.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • I may get lucky and she calls her superior officer who is usually a male, so I unleash my charms on him and in a few minutes am off on my way again with the smile on my face and the scrowl on hersthe female officer.

    "All correct Sir!" princesa 2008

  • Go to “crooks and liars” listen to Little Ricky talk about the memo, and then hold up the “Classified Memo” he recieved, then scrowl done to the post that sends you to the Offical Report, What does the last word on the report say?

    Think Progress » Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims 2006

  • I may get lucky and she calls her superior officer who is usually a male, so I unleash my charms on him and in a few minutes am off on my way again with the smile on my face and the scrowl on hersthe female officer.

    Archive 2008-04-01 princesa 2008

  • Ay, you may scrowl at me, Elspeth Proctor, but as far back as I can mind,

    The Little Minister 1898

  • I guess when this reaches you, you will be too much engag'd in preparing to quit your present habitation, & will have too much upon your head & hands, to pay much attention to this scrowl.

    Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Anna Green Winslow 1881

  • Lay down the fatal scrowl at this place, and collect all the dignity and resolution of your mind.

    Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian William Godwin 1796

  • I houp the bareheir will be honest enuff to deliver this scrowl; and that your honour will pardon

    The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • Just found this estimate of world trade balances on the CIA World Fact book (good news Spain is 2nd worse - we're third worse, scrowl down to see).

    Man in a Shed 2008

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