Definition of Scrowling

1. scrowle [v] - See also: scrowle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrowling

scrounger
scroungers
scrounges
scroungier
scroungiest
scrounging
scroungy
scrow
scrowdge
scrowdged
scrowdges
scrowl
scrowle
scrowled
scrowles
scrowling (current term)
scrowls
scrows
scroyle
scroyles
scrub
scrub-bird
scrub beefwood
scrub bird
scrub birds
scrub brush
scrub bull
scrub fowl
scrub nurse
scrub oak

Literary usage of Scrowling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"... each capable of containing 500 men. The town was crowded by officers. These wore northern men, and their 'scrowling faces by no means pleased me. ..."

2. The itinerant, or Memoirs of an actor by Samuel William Ryley (1808)
"... whilst the substance slips through his fingers ; there have I been rowling and scrowling up and down the country for the last two years, and for what? ..."

3. A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873: Embracing the Physical by Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé (1877)
"... aud soon led him. into the presence of the great chief, who with a scrowling brow denounced the English as liars. He then displayed a letter written, ..."

4. Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri & Great Plains by Joseph Henry Taylor (1897)
""We are goners," ejaculated Putney, as he looked toward the scrowling savages. But one of them proved to be Man Chief, a Mandan, and his move was paly to ..."

5. New England's Chattels by Samuel Hayes Elliot (1858)
"Ho was oppressed by the scrowling look of the people, and by the consciousness of their verdict already made up against ..."

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