Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
Though with a golden pen you scrawl. --Swift.
Scrawl \Scrawl\ (skr[add]l), n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.
The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. --Arbuthnot.
You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. --Gray.
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i. See {Crawl}. [Obs.] --Latimer.
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scrawled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scrawling}.] [Probably corrupted from scrabble.] To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter.
His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay.
One victim of a double homicide used a tube of white grease and the bloody floor of his kitchen to scrawl out a name before he died, authorities said.
A user, for example, may scrawl a circle and it will automatically be rounded and centred.