Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

Source : WordNet®

scrawl
     n : poor handwriting [syn: {scribble}, {scratch}, {cacography}]
     v : write carelessly [syn: {scribble}]