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Definition of Scorse
1. n. Barter; exchange; trade.
2. v. t. To barter or exchange.
3. v. i. To deal for the purchase of anything; to practice barter.
Definition of Scorse
1. Verb. (obsolete) To barter or exchange. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scorse
1. to chase [v SCORSED, SCORSING, SCORSES] - See also: chase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorse
Literary usage of Scorse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"See Jamieson. Johnson is evidently wron«» in considering it as a contraction of
discourse, in the manner of the Italian scors, &c. scorse ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"scorse' is in prov. use along the south coast (EDD.). ... 'scourse, for discourse;
with a quibbling reference to scourse or scorse, to barter. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"To barter; to exchange. Spenser, [scorso, Hal.] To chase. Y/W. To scorse. rw To
deal for the purchase of a horse. ..."
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