scorpiurus

[Lat., from Gr. skorpiouros, as adj. scorpion-tailed, as subst. see def.] Bot.: Caterpillar; a genus of Coronillee. Papilionaceous plants, with simple leaves, yellow, or rarely, purple flowers, and scaly tuberculated prickly legumes, looking like caterpillars, whence the English name. From the Mediterranean. *scörse, *scörçe, s. [Etym. doubtful; cf. dis course, and Ital. scorsa a course.] Barter, deal ing, exchange. *scörse (1), *scörçe, v . t . & i . [SCORSE, 8.] A. Trans.: To barter, to exchange. "After they should scorse Blows with the big-bon'd Dane."