Look up: scour

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   scour
   [Verb] To look all over to find something.
   Example: They had to scour the streets to find a petrol station which was still open.
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   scour
   [n] - a place that is scoured (especially by running water) 2. [v] - examine minutely 3. [v] - scour a surface
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   Scour
   Water erosion of the path surface; forms small channels which may lead to severe gullying.
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   scour
   the clearing out of a channel by the action of water 99999INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951 Category: General • A hollow in the bed of a stream caused by the erosive action of rapidly circulating flow. Category: The cosmos • Localized erosive action of water in streams,excavating and carrying away material from the bed and banks. Category: The cosmos • discolored and...
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   Scour
   The removal of material from around structural supports by flowing water.
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   Scour
   Scour (skour) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Scoured ; present participle & verbal noun Scouring .] [ Akin to LG. schüren , Dutch schuren , schueren , German scheuern , Danish skure ; Swedish skura ; all possibly from Late Latin escurare , from Latin ex + c ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/36
   
   
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   Scour
   Scour intransitive verb 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 diarrhœa. 4. To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper. « So four fierce coursers, starting ...
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   Scour
   Scour noun Diarrhœa or dysentery among cattle.
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   Scour
   Scour transitive verb 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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    Scour
    Scour noun 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.
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    scour
    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 ...
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    scour
    noun a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
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    scour
    verb rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; `flush the wound with antibiotics`; `purge the old gas tank`
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    Scour
    `Scour Inc.` was a search engine for multimedia on the Internet, and provided `Scour Exchange`, an early peer-to-peer file exchange service. Scour was founded by five students (Vince Busam, Michael Todd, Dan Rodriques, Jason Droege and Kevin Smilak) from the Computer Science Dept. of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1997. It moved into the spotlight in 1999 when former Disney president Michael Ovitz bought about a quarter of it...
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    Scour
    • (n.) The act of scouring. • (v. t.) To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush. • (n.) A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall. • (v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea. • (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, ...
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    scour
    scour Etymology: 'cleanse by rubbing', from about 1300, from Middle Dutch scuren, 'to polish, to clean' and from Old French escurer, both from Late Latin excurare 'to clean off'; literally, 'to take good care of'; from Latin ex-, 'out' + curare, 'to care for'.
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    Scour
    (1) Refers to the erosive power of water. (2) Abrasive effects of rocks and sediments incorporated in the ice base of a glacier.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo