scouring

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ADJ.

abrasive, bloody, bloody, harsh, rubbish, surrounding, violent

VERB + SCOURING

avoid, police, using

SCOURING + NOUN

area, entrails, flux, footage, pad, pads, security

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noun

1

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

2

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.

3

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.

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noun — the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and

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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

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

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Thus in 1670 the London bills ascribe 142 deaths to “bloody flux, scouring, and flux,” and 3,690 to “griping in the guts.”

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Police are scouring security footage following a robbery in the city centre.

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Where's the scouring pad?

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Where is the scouring pad?

Tatoeba · #9493150

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