Word Meanings - SCRATCHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With the action of scratching.

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• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• SCRATCH
  A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. Grose. 3. pl. (more info) 1. A break in the surface of a thing
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• SCRATCHWEED
  Cleavers.
• SCRATCHER
  One who, or that which, scratches; specifically , any rasorial bird.
• ACTIONABLY
  In an actionable manner.
• ACTIONARY; ACTIONIST
  A shareholder in joint-stock company.
• SCRATCHY
  Characterized by scratches.
• SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
  One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
• ACTIONLESS
  Void of action.
• SCRATCHBRUSH
  A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.
• SCRATCHWORK
  See COAT
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• UNDERACTION
  Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• SUBSTRACTION
  See 3 (more info) 1. Subtraction; deduction.
• SUBTRACTION
  The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
• EXACTION
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
• CONTACTION
  Act of touching.