scurrer (skerer)

[Sc. also or formerly scurrour, skouriour, skurriour; a var. of scourer2. The word seems to have been confused with F. coureur, E. courier, etc.] One who scours; a scout. [Obsolete or provincial.] And he sente for the scurrers to aduyse the dealynge of their ennemyes, and to se where they were, and what they Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., II. xxxiii. scurril, scurrile (skur'il), a. [Early mod. E. also scurrill, skurril; = It. scurrile, Flatter not greatne e with your scurrill praise. Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 136. This, in your scurril dialect; but my inn Knows no such language. B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 1. Their wits indeed serve them to that sole purpose, to make sport, to break a scurrile jest. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 208. It had bin plainly part i all, first, to correct him for grave Cicero, and not for scurrill Plautus. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 15. "Bring the unfortunate girl to her father's, and break no seurril jests here," said the Sub-Prior. Scott , Monastery, xxxiv.