Scour

[Scour]

If you're going to scour those dishes, you'll need a good scouring pad. To scour also means to examine something very, very closely. Having lost his contact lens at the party, Robert asked everyone to scour the room to help him find it.

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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.

Noun
a place that is scoured (especially by running water)

Verb
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

Verb
clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back"

Verb
rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops"

Verb
examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive"

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v. t.
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.

v. t.
To purge; as, to scour a horse.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast.

v. i.
To clean anything by rubbing.

v. i.
To cleanse anything.

v. i.
To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.

v. i.
To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper.

n.
Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.

Scour

Scour , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scoured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scouring.] [Akin to LG. sch'81ren, D. schuren, schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf. Cure.] 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. [Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It. scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf. Excursion.] 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.

Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling. -- Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. Raymond. -- Scouring rush. (Bot.) See Dutch rush, under Dutch. -- Scouring stock (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.

Scour

Scour, v. i. 1. To clean anything by rubbing. Shak. 2. To cleanse anything.

Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better.

3. To be purged freely; to have a diarrh'd2a. 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.

Scour

Scour, n. Diarrh'd2a or dysentery among cattle.

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.

To clean anything by rubbing.

Diarrh'd2a or dysentery among cattle.

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