These are the meanings of the letters SCROBE when you unscramble them.
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Brose (n.)
Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.
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Corse (n.)
A living body or its bulk.
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Corse (n.)
A corpse; the dead body of a human being.
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Score (n.)
A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
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Score (n.)
An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
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Score (n.)
Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
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Score (n.)
The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.
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Score (n.)
A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
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Score (n.)
A weight of twenty pounds.
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Score (n.)
The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.
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Score (n.)
A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
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Score (n.)
The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.
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Score (v. t.)
To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash.
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Score (v. t.)
Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.
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Score (v. t.)
To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
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Score (v. t.)
To engrave, as upon a shield.
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Score (v. t.)
To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
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Score (v. t.)
To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.
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Score (n.)
To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
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Sober (superl.)
Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
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Sober (superl.)
Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
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Sober (superl.)
Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
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Sober (superl.)
Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
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Sober (superl.)
Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
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Sober (v. t.)
To make sober.
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Sober (v. i.)
To become sober; -- often with down.