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scoured, ppl. a.|skaʊəd|
[f. scour v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Polished by rubbing; cleansed by scrubbing with a detergent. Also fig.
c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 186 Droppe hyt in a clene scoured bacyn. 1535Coverdale Ezek. i. 7 They glistred, as it had bene fayre scoured metall. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Eph. iv. 17–22 He cannot be sene, but onely with the scoured iyes of the soule. 1675H. Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 141 Set it a-boiling in a clean scoured skillet. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 465, I saw seven white scoured Elephants Teeth. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xviii, Dinah would contract such an immoderate attachment to her scoured tin, as to insist upon it that it shouldn't be used again for any possible purpose.
b. With out, of a glass: Cleaned out, emptied. Sc.
1805J. Nicol Poems I. 158 (Jam.) An' ilka blade had fill'd his wame, Wi' monie scour'd-out glasses.
2. Of silk, wool, etc.: Treated with a detergent.
166.Petty in Sprat Hist. Roy. Soc. (1667) 305 The same scowred Silk. 1716Gay Trivia iii. 270 The new-scower'd Manteau. c1830Mrs. Sherwood Houlston Tracts III. No. 81. 6 She wore a scoured silk trimmed with gimp. 1868J. Turner Woollen Manuf. Assist. 56 To find weight of greasy wool required to produce a certain weight of scoured wool.
b. quasi-n. = scoured wool.
1894Times 14 Mar. 3/4 The Continent again purchased freely of scoureds. 1897Daily News 19 Mar. 9/5 Good bodied and light dry scoureds maintain previous series' prices.
3. Purged; cleansed by purging.
1653Walton Compl. Angler xi. (1878) 87 At a well scowred lob-worm he [sc. the barbel] will bite as boldly as at any bait. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xiii. 106 A small well⁓scoured red worm will take them when nothing else will. |