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Meaning and definition for "scour" word
[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] scour a surface
[verb] examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the fugitive"
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\Scour\, n. 1. The act of scouring. 2. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall. If you catch the two sole denizens [trout] of a particular scour, you will find another pair installed in their place to-morrow. --Grant Allen.
\Scour\ (skour), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scoured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scouring}.] [Akin to LG. sch["u]ren, 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. --Shak. 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. --Pope. {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\, v. i. 1. To clean anything by rubbing. --Shak. 2. To cleanse anything. Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better. --Bacon. 3. To be purged freely; to have a diarrh[oe]a. 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. --Dryden.
\Scour\, n. Diarrh[oe]a or dysentery among cattle.
Synonyms for scour
abrade, flush, purge, scrub
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Let's analyse "scour" as pure text. This string has Five letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: RUOCS. Average typing speed for these characters is 1295 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
scour: 6 + 3 = 9, reduced: 9 . and the final result is Nine. |
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