Word Meanings - SCOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 , a basic slag,

Additional info about word: SCOUR

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 , a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. Raymond. -- Scouring rush. See Dutch rush, under Dutch. -- Scouring stock , a kind of fulling mill. (more info) Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take 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. stain my favors in a bloody mask, Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCOUR)

• Absterge
• Wipe
• cleanse
• purify
• sponge
• scour
• scrub

Related words: (words related to SCOUR)

• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• SCRUBBY
  Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
• SPONGE
  Any one of numerous species of Spongiæ, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiæ. 2. The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiæ , used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable
• SCRUBBER
  A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
• SCRUBBED
  Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
• SCOURAGE
  Refuse water after scouring.
• SCRUBBOARD
  A baseboard; a mopboard.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• SCOURSE
  See SCORSE
• SCRUB
  To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
• SCOURGER
  One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.
• ABSTERGENT
  Serving to cleanse, detergent.
• CLEANSER
  One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
• SPONGELET
  See SPONGIOLE
• SCOUR
  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 , a basic slag,
• ABSTERGE
  To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. Quincy.
• SPONGEOUS
  Resembling sponge; having the nature or qualities of sponge.
• SCOURER
  1. One who, or that which, scours. 2. A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. In those days of highwaymen and scourers. Macaulay.
• SCRUBSTONE
  A species of calciferous sandstone.
• SPONGER
  1. One who sponges, or uses a sponge. 2. One employed in gathering sponges. 3. Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on.
• DISCOURAGING
  Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
• DISCOURSIVE
  1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden. 3. Inclined
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• REPURIFY
  To purify again.
• OFFSCOURING
  That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.
• GLASS-SPONGE
  A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• DISCOURE
  To discover. That none might her discoure. Spenser.
• DISCOURTESY
  Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
• DISPONGE
  To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak.
• DISCOURTEOUS
  Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.