0 present participle of scour
1 to remove dirt from something by rubbing it hard with something rough:
2 to search a place or thing very carefully in order to try to find something:
3 (of farm animals, especially cows and pigs) to have diarrhoea:
Upon arrival, several calves were scouring and one died within days.
Likewise, no scouring structures are evident, indicating that the trackway was not eroded by a cur rent.
Lower bedding planes are erosional, planar or scouring, and show erosional features; flute casts, tool marks, rip-up clasts.
Lower bedding planes are erosional, planar or scouring and show erosional features; tool marks, flute casts, gutter casts, load casts, and rip-up clasts.
This leaves the interested researcher scouring through the vast case study literature that addresses elections and party competition.
We hope that excluded researchers understand the difficulty in scouring 30 years of literature.
I learned about their back-breaking work scouring the countryside for wood to warm the water and, finally, how impossible it was to find clean water.
By the middle of 1965 stocks were very low and the cement makers were scouring the world for imports at high prices.
