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Scouring   /skˈaʊərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Scour  v. t.  (past & past part. scoured; pres. part. scouring)  
1.
To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.
2.
To purge; as, to scour a horse.
3.
To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; often with off or away. "(I will) stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it."
4.
To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. "Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain."
5.
To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush. "If my neighbor ought to scour a ditch."
Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling.
Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace.
Scouring rush. (Bot.) See Dutch rush, under Dutch.
Scouring stock (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.


Scour  v. i.  
1.
To clean anything by rubbing.
2.
To cleanse anything. "Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better."
3.
To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
4.
To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper. "So four fierce coursers, starting to the race, Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace."





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"Scouring" Quotes from Famous Books



... you been," she inquired, severely, "scouring the country like a heathen on this blessed day? And what is that you have burning? You're disgracing the house, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IX., March, 1862., No. LIII. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics, • Various
... walk a mile. Yet in the old days these twenty miles were a great gulf fixed between the Gloucestershire natives and the "chaw-bacons" over the boundary. Their very language is as different as possible. To this day the villagers who went to the last "scouring of the horse" and saw the old-fashioned backsword play, talk of the expedition with as much pride as if they had made a ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs
... the true gospel profession. (Mark 1:15; Prov 3:7; 16:6) But some know nothing of it, until they come to the end of all, and their repentance will do them no good. Repentance is not but where the true fear of God is; yea, the fear of God is one ground of repentance. Repentance is the scouring grace, it is that which purges. Repentance is, as I may call it, that bitter pill without the taking, and sound working of which, base and sinful humours will rest unstirred, unpurged, undriven out of ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... bones, my lords, he did speak them to me in the garret one night, as we were scouring ...
— King Henry VI, Second Part • William Shakespeare [Rolfe edition]
... was ranged along one of the walls, with benches on each side of it supplemented by rush-bottomed chairs. Near the bread-trough was hung a long-armed steel-balance with a brass dish suspended by brass chains, all brilliant from scouring with soap and sand; an ancient fowling-piece rested in wooden crutches driven between the stones on one side of the clock, and on the other side was hung a glittering copper warming-pan—a necessary comfort here of ...
— The Christmas Kalends of Provence - And Some Other Provencal Festivals • Thomas A. Janvier


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