单词 | outscourings |
释义 | outscouringsn. With plural agreement. Material which is washed out or removed by scouring. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning washingsc1330 purginga1398 scouring1588 purgament1597 cleansing1608 fullage1611 sordes1640 scuda1642 offscouring1655 offage1727 outscourings1828 cleaning1855 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Outscourings, substances washed or scoured out. Buckland. 1853 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 26 Nov. 303/2 The outscourings of the abattoirs..all enter the steam below. 1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. ix. 145 Curious things are those coprolites: animal outscourings, as geologists tell us, of the antediluvian ages. 1893 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 189 Those rivers were grossly polluted with the sewage and out-scourings of the rapidly-growing metropolis. 1952 J. Hunter Taen wi da Trow 97 You's a baandd o vyld ootscoorins. 1990 P. Scupham Watching the Perseids 59 Time now to cauterize by fire Outscourings from crooked corners: Barren leaves, the sack of libraries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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