Found Poetry

Today I learned:

Scuffle, n.

A contention or trial of strength between two persons, who embrace each other's bodies; a struggle with close embrace, to decide which shall throw the other; in distinction from wrestling, which is a trial of strength and dexterity at arm's length. Among our common people, it is not unusual for two persons to commence a contest by wrestling, and at last close in, as it is called, and decide the contest by a scuffle.

This from "Webster's Daily," a site dedicated to "Found poetry from the first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)," and promising "A new definition every day." Thanks again, AE, for this and for a complementary commentary on dictionaries and dictionary-making in general.