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Definition of Scourings
1. scouring [n] - See also: scouring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scourings
Literary usage of Scourings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"Wool scourings furnish some potash in countries where much wool is washed.
Sheep's wool as it comes from the animal contains from 30 to 75 per cent of its ..."
2. Cost Control and Accounting for Textile Mills by Eugene Szepesi (1922)
"Monthly scourings of the various sortings. Total scourings of the various sortings.
... Total cost of scourings. Scoured wool used of the various sortings. ..."
3. The Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather Dressing: Theoretically by François Malepeyre, Campbell Morfit (1852)
"They are then treated on both sides with the oil and train-oil scourings, dried,
beaten out with the feet, trimmed on the borders ..."
4. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1906)
"In this mill there are five flushing water closets, and two opening directly over
the raceway, all discharging into the Nith, also all washings, scourings ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"place, colonizes the affected tissue, and multiplies, rapidly surrounding itself
the while with its owu off-scourings. The active ingredient of tuberculin ..."
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