Scrip


noun
1.
a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
2.
a scrap of paper.
3.
Finance.

a certificate representing a fraction of a share of stock.
a certificate to be exchanged for goods, as at a company store.
a certificate indicating the right of the holder to receive payment later in the form of cash, goods, or land.

4.
paper currency in denominations of less than one dollar, formerly issued in the United States.
noun, Archaic.
1.
a bag or wallet carried by wayfarers.
noun, Informal.
1.
a prescription, as for a drug.
noun
1.
a written certificate, list, etc
2.
a small scrap, esp of paper with writing on it
3.
(finance)

a certificate representing a claim to part of a share of stock
the shares allocated in a bonus issue

noun
1.
(archaic) a small bag or wallet, as carried by pilgrims
noun
1.
(informal) a medical prescription

a small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Sam. 17:40); “a shepherd’s bag.” In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of skin (Matt. 10:10; Mark 6:8; Luke 9:3; 10:4). The name “scrip” is meant to denote that the bag was intended to hold scraps, fragments, as if scraped off from larger articles, trifles.

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