Crossword clues for scumble
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scumble \Scum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scumbling.] [Freq. of scum. [root] 158.] (Fine Arts) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.
Wiktionary
n. An opaque kind of glaze (layer of paint). vb. to apply an opaque glaze to an area of a painting to make it softer or duller
WordNet
n. the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture
Wikipedia
Scumble may refer to:
- A glaze painting technique
- Scumble, an alcoholic beverage from the Discworld fictional universe
- Scumble, a novel by Ingrid Law
Usage examples of "scumble".
An old woman, Molas Ferd, was down by the riverbank collecting geese scumble when she sighted the swell.
A man with short-cropped free-flowing hair, and therefore neither a priest nor a sayer, ran up and jumped onto a scumble barrow.
His face was pale and his chin scumbled with a half grown beard, but it was his features that lit first.
The man had fallen into the pile of armor, whose polished iron surfaces were now scumbled by damp leaves and streaks of grass and twigs and even feathers.
It was clearly unfinished, but the walls had been coloured in a deep terracotta, an Italian shade, and there was a scumbled gilt being applied around the window frames that set it off to perfection.
The flowerbeds, bordered with bricks buried diagonally, are pierced by dull red spikes that will be peonies, and the earth itself, scumbled, stone-flecked, horny, raggedly patched with damp and dry, looks like the oldest and smells like the newest thing under Heaven.
His neck and cheeks were scumbled with an impending beard, while his hair was matted into snarled ropes that writhed in a halo around his head.
After the stint at the Ritz, the movie star was given three rooms in Sisodia's cavernous, designer--chic flat in an old mansion block near Grosvenor Square, all Art Deco marbled floors and scumbling on the walls.
He lifted a fan-ended scumbling brush and twirled it deftly around two fingers.
Then, as quickly as a trap taking a rat, the wolf snapped back around Bob and he fell down, his jaw working, growls scumbling in the thick mucus that was the waste matter of these furious changes.