Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCOUR'ED, pp.

Rubbed with something rough, or made clean by rubbing; severely purged; brushed along.

SCOUR'ER, n.

1. One that scours or cleans by rubbing.
2. A drastic cathartic.
3. One that runs with speed.

SCOURGE, n. [skurj; Fr. escourgée; It. scoreggia, a leather thong; from L. corriggia, from corrigo, to straighten.]

1. A whip; a lash consisting of a strap or cord; an instrument of punishment or discipline. A scourge of small cords. John ii.
2. A punishment; vindictive affliction. Famine and plague are sent as scourges for amendment. Esdras.
3. He or that which greatly afflicts, harasses or destroys; particularly, any continued evil or calamity. Attila was called the scourge of God, for the miseries he inflicted on his conquests. Slavery is a terrible scourge.
4. A whip for a top. Locke.

SCOURGE, v.t. [skurj; It. scoreggiare.]

1. To whip severely; to lash. Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman? Acts xxii.
2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict for sins o faults, and with the purpose of correction. He will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy, again. Tobit. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb xii.
3. To afflict greatly; to harass, torment or injure.

SCOURG'ED, pp.

Whipped; lashed; punished severely; harassed.

SCOURG'ER, n.

One that scourges or punishes; one that afflicts severely.

SCOURG'ING, ppr.

Whipping; lashing with severity; punishing or afflicting severely.

SCOUR'ING, n.

A rubbing hard for cleaning; a cleansing by a drastic purge; looseness; flux. Bacon.

SCOUR'ING, ppr.

Rubbing hard with something rough cleaning by rubbing; cleansing with a drastic cathartic; ranging over for clearing.

SCOURSE, v.t. [See SCORSE.]

SCOUT, n. [Fr. ecout; ecouter, to hear, to listen; Norm. escoult, a hearing; It. scolta, to watch; scoltare, to listen; ausculto; Gr. ους, the ear, and L. culto, colo.]

1. In military affairs, a person sent before an army, or to a distance, for the purpose of observing the motions of an enemy or discovering any danger, and giving notice to the general. Horsemen are generally employed as scouts. Encyc.
2. A high rock. [Not in use.]

SCOUT, v.i.

To go on the business of watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout. With obscure wing / Scout far and wide into the realm of night. Milton.

SCOUT, v.t. [perhaps Sw. skiuta, to shoot, to thrust, that to reject.]

To sneer at; to treat with disdain and contempt. [This word is in good use in America.]

SCOUT'ED, pp.

Sneered at; treated with contempt.

SCOUT'ING, ppr.

Treating with contempt.

SCO'VEL, n. [W. ysgubell, from ysgub, a broom, L. scopa.]

A mop for sweeping ovens; a maulkin. Ainsworth. Bailey.

SCOW, n. [D. schouw; Dan. skude; Sw. skuta.]

A large flat-bottomed boat; used as a ferry-boat, or for loading and unloading vessels. [A word in good use in New England.]

SCOW, v.t.

To transport in a scow.

SCOW'ED, pp.

Transported in a scow.

SCOWL, n.

1. The wrinkling of the brows in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness or discontent in the countenance.
2. Gloom; dark or rude aspect; as of the heavens. Crashaw.

SCOWL, v.i. [Sax. scul, in scul-eaged, scowl-eyed; probably from the root of G. schel, schiel, D. scheel, distorted; schielen, Dan. skieler, to squint; Gr. σκολιοω, to twist. See Class G1, No. 59.]

1. To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe or angry. She scowl'd and frown'd with froward countenance. Spenser.
2. To look gloomy, frowning, dark or tempestuous; as, the scowling heavens. Thomson.

SCOWL, v.t.

To drive with a scowl or frowns. Milton.

SCOWL'ED, pp.

Frowned at.

SCOWL'ING, ppr.

Contracting the brows into wrinkles; frowning; expressing displeasure or sullenness.

SCOWL'ING-LY, adv.

With a wrinkled, frowning aspect; with a sullen look.