scouring

The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.

Diarrhea. (Now used only of livestock, though also sometimes used of humans into the 1600s.)

Another for a violent scouring. Take the Entrails of a Pullet, or great Chicken, all but the Gizzard, and mix with tbem of Spikenard one Ounce, ' and make him swallow it, and this will infallibly stay his Scouring, yea, though it be a Bloody-Flux.

For that kind of lax and scouring called bloody flux, see the article BLOODY FLUX.

Erosion by water, especially in watercourses.

It was also found that scouring had occurred in the bed of the mill lade, which passes between the first and second piers.