scouringstickt (skouringstik)

A rod used for cleaning the barrel of a gun: sometimes the ramrod, sometimes a different implement. scouring-stock (skour'ing-stok), n. In woolen manuf., an apparatus in which cloths are treated after weaving to remove the oil added to the wool before carding, and to cleanse them from the dirt taken up in the proce of manufacture. The cloth is put into a trough containing a solution in water of hog's dung, urine, and soda or fullers' earth, and pounded with heavy oaken mallets which oscillate on an axis, and are lifted by tappet-wheels. Compare scouring scouring-table (skour'ing-tā bl), n. In leathermanuf., a large strong table used for scouring. It has a top of stone or some close-grained wood, slightly inclined away from the workman so that the water may run off at the side opposite to him. machine. Are not the speedy scouts return'd again That dogg'd the mighty army of the Dauphin? Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 3. 1. Mount. What were those pa 'd by? Rocca. Some scout of soldiers, I think. Mount. It may be well so, for I saw their horses. Beau. and Fl . , Knight of Malta, iv. 2. 3t. A spy; a sneak. I'll beg for you, steal for you, go through the wide world with you, and starve with you, for though I be a poor cobler's son I am no scout . Smollett , Roderick Random, xv. ( Davies .) 4. A college servant or waiter. [Oxford and Harvard universities.] No scout in Oxford, no gyp in Cambridge, ever matched him in speed and intelligence. Scott , Fortunes of Nigel, xvi. 5. In cricket , a fielder. It [the ball] fell upon the tip of the bat, and bounded far away over the heads of the scouts . Dickens, Pickwick, vii. 6. The act of looking out or watching; lookout; watch. While the rat is on the scout , And the mouse with curious snout. Cowper, The Cricket (trans.). 7. One of various birds of the auk family ( Al cidæ ) which are common on the British islands, as the razor-billed auk, the common or foolish guillemot, and the puffin or sea-parrot.-8t. In the Netherlands, a bailiff or magistrate. See schout. For their Oppidan Government, they [the United Provinces] have Variety of Officers, a Scout , Burg masters, a Balue, and Vroetschoppens. The Scout is chosen by the States. Howell , Letters, I. ii. 15.