transitive. To scratch or tear with the claws, or (transferred) with the nails or a pointed instrument.

transitive. To lacerate, wound, or mark superficially by dragging the nails, claws, or anything pointed or prickly, over the skin or surface.

transitive. To rub harshly, scratch. Obsolete exc. dialect.

To scratch with the finger-nails or claws; also intransitive. Also, to caress (a dog, etc.) by scratching or clawing. Obsolete.

transitive. To scratch, scrape. Also absol.

transitive. To scratch, claw. literal and figurative.

transitive. To scratch. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To handle as a cat or bird does a mouse; to claw at, tear, bite. Obsolete.

transitive. To cover with scratches, to scratch all over.

transitive. To cut or wound slightly; to graze (the skin, a part of the body, etc.). Now rare (chiefly regional in later use).

to scratch, claw like a ferret; to strip bare.

To scratch, rub (a part of one's body). Also intransitive for reflexive. Obsolete.

transitive. To scratch or tear all over with claws or nails.

transitive. To scratch, tear.

transitive. To scratch, scrape (a surface, a part of the body, etc.); (also) to scrape away; to erase. Also: to make (an indentation or mark) by…

transitive. To scratch. Obsolete.

(transitive) to tear with the talons; to claw. In quot. 1685 figurative.