Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The word seems to have been used chiefly with ref. to trading in horses, and prob. arose by confusion from
course , also writtencoarse , and the orig. courser, esp. in the comp. horse-courser, which alternated with horse-scourser: seecourse , courser.] - To exchange; barter; trade; swap: as, to
scourse horses. - To make an exchange; exchange; trade.
- To run; scamper; hurry; skurry.
- noun Discourse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete See
scorse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete form of
scorse .
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Mr. Deane and 1 (Mr. Deane will certainly be hcreby-and-by) will go, and di. scourse with Greville himself tomorrow, please the Lord.
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The eaves flashing, if to be designed with new roof structures, can be made with couple or purlin roofs in the course of joining or, if to be designed in the scourse of maintenance work, with existing purlin roofs.
2. Types of Roof Flashings Rolf Becher 1993
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My frens, dat is a very 'portant topic to my' scourse?
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Wilkins's _D.scovery of a World in the Moone_, [7] a serious semiscientific work on the nature of the moon and the possibility of man's flying thither, and a prose romance by Francis Godwin, _The Man in the Moone: or, A D.scourse of a Voyage thither by D. Gonsales.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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Michelle has her own stylist, of scourse, Ikram Goldman, whose namesake Chicago boutique Michelle has long patronised.
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D.scourse on the Method; The Objections and R.plies, in The Philosophical Writings Of D.scartes, 3 vols., translated by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, and D. Murdoch, volume 3 including A. Kenny, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988
Zombies Kirk, Robert 2006
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That Planet_, London, 1638.] [8: _The Man in the Moone; or, A D.scourse of a Voyage thither by D. Gonsales_, [By F.G.], London, 1638.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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435; Dr, Juhnson's character of this d scourse, ib.
Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A. Bentley, Samuel, 1785-1868. [from old catalog] 1812
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