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scratched, ppl. a.|skrætʃt|
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1. a. In senses of the verb scratch. scratched figure (Typogr.): A numeral figure with a slanting line drawn across it, used in printing examples of arithmetical operations involving cancelling. scratched blue = scratch blue.
1562A. Brooke Romeus & Juliet 2422 With scratched face, and heare betorne. 1771Luckombe Hist. Printing 256 Scratched figures..were used here in that Species of Arithmetic which is called Division. 1871Amer. Encycl. Printing (ed. Ringwalt), Scratched Figures..are frequently called canceled figures. 1883L. M. Solon Art of Old Eng. Potter vi. 79 Some..processes deserve special attention. The ‘scratched blue’ for instance enjoyed a successful run. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. iii. 409, I purchased a small printing frame..and some scratched negatives from a local photographer. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 748/2 Scratched blue.., incised ornament on unbaked clay, sprinkled with cobalt glass, then fused in the kiln.
Prov.1584Lyly Alex. & Camp. iv. iv, Truth is never with out a scracht face. 1625J. Robinson Ess. xxxiii. Wks. 1851 I. 142 Truth goes with a scratched face, less or more.
b. Sporting. Withdrawn (from a race, etc.).
1869‘Wat. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xix, The peccant owner of the scratched animal.
†2. slang. Drunk. Obs.
1622J. Taylor (Water-P.) Water Cormorant B 4 b, For though hee be as drunke as any Rat, He hath but catcht a foxe... Or some say hee's bewitcht, or scratcht or blinde. |