scour

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scour englanniksi

To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.

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(quote-book), Esq.|location=London|publisher=(...) G. Hawkins,(nb...)|year=1751|section=VI|page=36|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nj8JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA36|oclc=723422580|passage=If tranſcribers and printers, or editors, will be perpetually varying from the ſpelling of their author, we ſhall neceſſarily have a conſtant ſource of corruption: for by this alteration, which inſenſibly goes on from ſmaller to greater things, that antique caſt is loſt, which of itſelf carries ſo venerable an aſpect; and our modern editors, in this reſpect, reſemble the officious ſervant of the late learned antiquary Dr. ''Woodward'', who in ſcowering off the ruſt from an old ſhield, which his maſter had juſt purchaſed, made it more reſemble the new ſcowered cover of an old kettle, than the ſhield of an ancient heroe.
(RQ:Sterne Tristram Shandy)
(quote-book)|edition=new|location=Cork, Munster, Ireland|publisher=(...) John Connor,(nb...)|year=1815|volume=II|section=paragraph 2|page=391|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4z9IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA391|oclc=317853577|passage=A light brown sand, of an exceeding fine grain, almost impalpable, from the river Sullane, near New-bridge, where it is found in plenty. It scours brass without scratching, cleans silver, and is excellent for casting the finer works, both of the brazier and silversmith.
(RQ:Thoreau Cape Cod)
To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)|translation=I will redeem myself by defeating Percy (Hotspur)|Percy, / And at the close of some glorious day, / will be bold to tell you that I am your son, / When I will be covered in blood like wearing a garment, / And my face is stained with blood as if wearing a mask, / Which, when washed away, shall scour my shame with it, (..)
(quote-book) & Spottiswoode|George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, for Office of Public Sector Information|Her Majesty's Stationery Office|year=1865|section=paragraph 92|page=28|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoUIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA28|oclc=29697418|passage=It has already been explained that the ebb tide in the Hooghly is a much more powerful scouring agent than the flood tide, that the tide therefore should be used for scouring a channel in preference to the flood whenever it is practicable to use it, hence it is to the body of ebbing water that scours out the fine channel from Akelmeg to Crossing Creek that attention will be principally directed, and not to the flood that scours the channel near the Roopnarain entrance.
To clear the tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
(quote-journal)|year=1862|volume=X, part I|section=section 3 (Examination of the Water Theory)|page=191|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OnTJQlHuzHsC&pg=PA191|oclc=8621654|passage=It has been stated by trustworthy authorities that certain waters in the lias-formation possess scouring properties. (..) Mr. Clarke likewise mentions two cases. "In one instance," he says, "a large piece of pasture-land was found to scour the cows kept upon it, to the great loss of the occupier, until he hit upon the expedient of cutting off the supply of spring-water from a neighbouring brook, and confining the supply to the rain-water held in the ditches,—the result of which has been that very little of the disorder has since appeared upon the land referred to.(nb..)"
To cleanse (something) without rubbing.
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)
(quote-journal)|journal=The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture|location=London|publisher=Printed for J. Wyatt,(nb...)|month=August|year=1805|volume=XXXIX (Second Series)|page=222|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMw-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA222|oclc=638049490|passage=Flanders soap is the substance which appeared to act in the most advantageous manner; it scowers very speedily, and gives wool a degree of whiteness which it is extremely difficult to produce by any other means.
The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
(quote-journal)|journal=Quarterly Papers on Engineering|location=London|publisher=John Weale(nb...)|year=1845|volume=IV|issue=VII|section=Section IV (Of the Four Sluices, and on Their Comparative Good and Evil Effects on Their Respective Channels. Of the Alleged Danger of an Open Channel. Of the Wicked Perversion of Harbour Funds to Individual Profit.)|page=77|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_NKAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA77|oclc=472502773|passage=The general manner of working this sluice is to take in every alternate tide during the high tides in dry weather, and to let them off for scours for the harbour. In wet weather, or during neap tides, no scours are kept back, nor is it of any consequence to the harbour if no tides are suffered to pass up through the sluice at such times.
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A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall.
(quote-book)|edition=new considerably enlarged and improved|location=London|publisher=(...) Sherwood, Jones and Co.(nb...)|year=1825|page=220|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqJkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA220|oclc=229421361|passage=Fish as near the middle of the stream as you can in the spring months, and also on the shallows and scowers; but in the winter, in deep holes; let the bait drag two or three inches on the ground.
(quote-book),(nb...)|year=1881|pages=115–116|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/evolutionistatla00alleuoft/page/115|oclc=156164762|passage=Trout always have a recognised home of their own, inhabited by a pretty fixed number of individuals. If you catch the two sole denizens of a particular scour, you will find another pair installed in their place to-morrow.
A place where wool is washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing.
(quote-journal) I am pleased to report that the prototype Drycom system was given its first full trial at the UEB Awatoto scour in Hawke's Bay.
To search an area thoroughly.
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick) all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
(RQ:Walliams Ratburger)
To run with speed; to scurry.
(RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale)
(RQ:Dryden Virgil)|page=70|lines=690–693|passage=So four fierce Courſers ſtarting to the Race, / Scow'r thro' the Plain, and lengthen ev'ry Pace: / Nor Reigns, nor Curbs, nor threat'ning Cries they fear, / But force along the trembling Charioteer.
(RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend)
To move swiftly over; to brush along.
(RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism)