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Definition of Scoured
1. Adjective. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
Definition of Scoured
1. Verb. (past of scour) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scoured
1. scour [v] - See also: scour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoured
Literary usage of Scoured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"scoured WOOL "scoured wool," as used in the tariff acts. imposing a specific duty
on scoured wool, Includes wool imported scoured, though not In a form ..."
2. Wool and Manufactures of Wool by Bureau of Statistics, Dept. of the Treasury, William Franklin Switzler, United States (1887)
"Percentage of scoured wool.—Unwashed Merino wool shrinks from 50 to 80 per cent,
in scouring. The lightest and choicest Australian medium, unwashed, ..."
3. Laboratory Manual of Dyeing and Textile Chemistry by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1909)
"After the silk has been scoured or boiled-off it should be thoroughly washed ...
After the scoured silk is dried, in order to soften the fibre and to give ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"This rule, however, must be received with caution, for it has been remarked that
shingle generally accumulates with off-shore winds, and is scoured off ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"A traffic, as revoking as the slave-traffic of Africa, had sprung up ; gangs of
child-jobbers scoured the country to entrap or purchase thousands of little ..."
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