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Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), a.
Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
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How solitary, how scrub, does this town look!
--Walpole.
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No little scrub joint shall come on my board. --Swift.
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{Scrub game}, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players.

{Scrub race}, a race between scrubs, or between untrained
animals or contestants.
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Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), v. t. [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.
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Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), v. i.
To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour;
hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a
living.
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Scrub \Scrub\ (skr[u^]b), n.
1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. "A
sorry scrub." --Bunyan.
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We should go there in as proper a manner as
possible; nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
--Goldsmith.
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2. Something small and mean.
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3. A worn-out brush. --Ainsworth.
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4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the
prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
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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.]
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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.
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7. (Forestry) A low, straggling tree of inferior quality.
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{Scrub bird} (Zool.), an Australian passerine bird of the
family {Atrichornithidae}, 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 ({Quercus
Catesbaei}); that of the Rocky Mountain region is {Quercus
undulata}, var. Gambelii.

{Scrub robin} (Zool.), an Australian singing bird of the
genus {Drymodes}.
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