1. scour - Noun
2. scour - Verb
To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress.
To purge; as, to scour a horse.
To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away.
To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast.
To clean anything by rubbing.
To cleanse anything.
To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper.
Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLike Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it. Stanley Tucci
I wonder what will happen if we put half a million troops on the ground, and scour Iraq from one corner to the other, and find no weapons of mass destruction? Colin Powell
I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it. Al Yankovic
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?' Geraldine Brooks
We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton. Quentin Bryce
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise And motion. Samuel Johnson