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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
scour
    n 1: a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
    v 1: examine minutely; "The police scoured the country for the
         fugitive"
    2: clean with hard rubbing; "She scrubbed his back" [syn:
       scrub, scour]
    3: rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops" [syn: scour,
       abrade]
    4: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with
       antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" [syn: flush,
       scour, purge]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scour \Scour\, v. i.
   1. To clean anything by rubbing. --Shak.
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   2. To cleanse anything.
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            Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth
            better.                               --Bacon.
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   3. To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
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   4. To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of
      something; to scamper.
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            So four fierce coursers, starting to the race,
            Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace.
                                                  --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scour \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.
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   2. To purge; as, to scour a horse.
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   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.
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            [I will] stain my favors in a bloody mask,
            Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it.
                                                  --Shak.
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   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.
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            Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. --Pope.
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   5. To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush.

            If my neighbor ought to scour a ditch. --Blackstone.
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   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.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scour \Scour\, n.
   1. Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.
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   2. The act of scouring.
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   3. 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.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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