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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
scum
n 1: worthless people [syn: trash, scum]
2: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the
surface of a liquid
v 1: remove the scum from
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Scum \Scum\ (sk[u^]m), n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw.
skum, Icel. sk[=u]m, LG. schum, D. schuim, OHG. sc[=u]m, G.
schaum; probably from a root meaning, to cover. [root]158.
Cf. Hide skin, Meerschaum, Skim, v., Sky.]
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1. The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the
surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which
form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of
metals in a molten state; dross.
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Some to remove the scum as it did rise. --Spenser.
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2. refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
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The great and innocent are insulted by the scum and
refuse of the people. --Addison.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Scum \Scum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scummed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scumming.]
1. To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from
the surface of; to skim.
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You that scum the molten lead. --Dryden &
Lee.
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2. To sweep or range over the surface of. [Obs.]
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Wandering up and down without certain seat, they
lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.
--Milton.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Scum \Scum\, v. i.
To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used
figuratively.
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Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and
scummed over. --A. K. H.
Boyd.
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Thesaurus Results for Scum:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
aerate, alluvion, alluvium, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, apply to, ash, beat, bilge, bilgewater, blanket, block, bones, breakers, canaille, canopy, carrion, cattle, chaff, cinder, clinker, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coating, collar, collop, cope, cover, cover up, covering, cowl, cream, culm, cur, curtain, cut, deadwood, deal, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, disk, ditchwater, draff, dregs, dregs of society, dross, dust, eclipse, ember, enamel, facing, feces, feuille, filings, film, flap, foam, foil, fold, froth, fur, garbage, gash, glop, grounds, gunk, head, hogwash, hood, husks, lacquer, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lather, lay on, lay over, leaf, leavings, lees, loess, male gamete, mantle, mask, masses, membrane, meringue, milt, mire, mob, moraine, mousse, muck, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, offal, offscourings, offscum, ooze, orts, overlay, overspread, paint, pane, panel, parings, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, pollen, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation, prick, proletariat, protein, puff, put on, raff, rags, ragtag and bobtail, rasher, raspings, refuse, revetment, riffraff, rubbish, safety glass, scale, scoria, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, screen, scud, scurf, sea foam, sediment, seed, semen, seminal fluid, settlings, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, sheet, shield, shit, shithead, silt, sinter, skin, skunk, slab, slack, slag, slat, slice, slime, slob, slop, slops, slosh, slough, sludge, slush, smut, snake, soapsuds, soot, sordes, souffle, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid, spermatozoon, spindrift, splosh, spoondrift, spray, spread over, spume, stinging, stinker, stubble, sublimate, sud, suds, superimpose, superpose, surf, sweepings, swill, swinish multitude, table, tablet, tares, toad, trash, turd, unwashed, varnish, veil, veneer, vermin, wafer, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, whip, whisk, white water |
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Common Misspellings > |
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