[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A piece of writing; a letter or its contents; a document. In later use sometimes: specifically a letter or other piece of writing used by a beggar to appeal for money.

- Originally Scottish. A promissory note or a banknote; specifically one that is forged or counterfeit. Later also as a mass noun: paper money. Compare "screen".

- A pointed tool used for scoring or engraving wood; = "scribe".

- Any of the lines or grooves incised on a scrive board, which mark out the body plan of a ship or boat.


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century. From scrieve

[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To write. Also with object: to write (something). Chiefly Scottish in later use.

- To engrave or inscribe (a surface or object); to inscribe or incise (letters, symbols, etc.) on a surface or object. Usually in passive.

- To mark out or incise (the outlines of the body plan of a ship or boat) in full size on a wooden platform, using a pointed tool. Also with in or out. Compare "scribe", scrieve board. Now chiefly historical.


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English; earliest use found in Ipotis. Partly (i) from Anglo-Norman and Middle French escriv-, stem (e.g. in present plural and present subjunctive) of Anglo-Norman escrier, also escrivre, escriver, Anglo-Norman and Middle French escrire (French écrire) to write, set out in writing, to draw, paint, decorate, to describe, to enrol, to engrave, inscribe from classical Latin scrībere

[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- To move or glide along swiftly. Frequently with adverbs or prepositions, as across, on, over, etc.


Phrases:

Origin:
late 18th century; earliest use found in Robert Burns (1759–1796), poet. Origin uncertain. Perhaps the reflex of a borrowing from early Scandinavian