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Scout   /skaʊt/   Listen
Scout

noun
1.
A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.  Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch.
2.
A Boy Scout or Girl Scout.
3.
Someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports).  Synonym: talent scout.
4.
Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.  Synonyms: guide, pathfinder.
verb
(past & past part. scouted; pres. part. scouting)
1.
Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody.  Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre.



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"Scout" Quotes from Famous Books



... A scout was on the watch, and when they appeared soon brought the intelligence. All was in readiness. The keeper with three stout fellows in one party, and MacFane with four more in another. The earliness of their setting out denoted they intended to lengthen their walk. The great danger was ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... face grew grey. For himself he had no fear, but for the girl beside him he dared not even think. They were Ibraheim Omair's men who had trapped them, and he cursed his folly in allowing Diana to come so far. Yet it had seemed safe enough. The scout's reports had lately proved that the robber Sheik had up to now respected the boundary line between the two territories. This must be a sudden tentative raid which had met with unlooked-for success. The bait ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull
... precisely the absorbing topic of the forthcoming Boy-Scout march-past that was engaging the Countess of Bailquist's earnest attention ...
— When William Came • Saki
... said he, "I can not grant your request. I would be overrun with similar applications; but I will tell you what you can do. There are hundreds of just such men as you want, who would be glad of such a scout." We thanked him ...
— Thirty Years a Slave • Louis Hughes
... scout ship talked with us by the language of the whipping signal flags; but the ordinary Channel craft came and went without hindrance or seeming fear, and again it was hard for us to make ourselves believe that we had reached a zone where ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb


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