Definition of Scummed

1. scum [v] - See also: scum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scummed

scumbags
scumbered
scumbers
scumble
scumbled
scumbles
scumbling
scumblings
scumbria
scumbucket
scumbuckets
scumfish
scumless
scumlike
scummed (current term)
scummers
scummier
scummiest
scummily
scumminess
scumming
scummings
scummy
scums
scumsucker
scumsuckers
scumsucking
scumware

Literary usage of Scummed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1880)
"On one single day in October 100 pounds of scummed milk, at the Milk- Supplying Company of Copenhagen, had shown a fatty substance of I! pounds and 28 ..."

2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence by Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854)
"The night's milk is scummed in the morning at daybreak, when the cows are milked again, ... In three hours, the whole mass is scummed a second time, ..."

3. The Nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane: With Practical Directions for by George Richardson Porter (1843)
"Some minutes after this mixture must be hurried from the flambeau into the strop, where it is mixed with syrup much more scummed and evaporated. ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1901)
"10 was slightly scummed, while that of No. 11 was scummed ... The glazes containing the fritts highest in lime, scummed worst, probably due to the fact that ..."

5. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1902)
"11 was scummed badly and was less mature. In Series A-III No. ... The glazes containing the fritts highest in lime, scummed worst, probably due to the fact ..."

6. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1829)
"The night's milk is scummed in the morning at day break, when the cows are milked again, ... In three hours, the whole mass is scummed a second time, ..."

7. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1829)
"The night's milk is scummed in the morning at day break, when the cows are milked again, ... In three hours, the whole mass is scummed a second time, ..."

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