scud

Naked.

To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).

clouds scudding across the sky

When scudding on from snare to snare I plied My anxious visitation, hurrying on, Still hurrying hurrying onward ...

To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.

If the Main Topsail should by any accident be split, it will be still necessary to have a lofty Sail set in such a Sea, and the close reefed Topsail singly will be the best to scud under.

all night they were obliged to scud under bare poles.

To hit or slap.

To speed.

To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.

The act of scudding.

Clouds or rain(s) (or snow, etc) driven by the wind.

But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face […]

... he will have a wet journey, seeing it is apout to pe a scud."

A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.

Small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts. Such clouds generally are associated with cool moist air, such as thunderstorm outflow.

A gust of wind.

A scab on a wound.