scour (v.) Copy link Outline I. To clean by rubbingII. To pass swiftly over1. percurro, cŭcurri, or curri, 32. corrĭpio, rĭpui, reptum, 3 (poet.)3. verro, 34. văgor, pervăgor, 1 (to roam over) • scour (v.): I. To clean by rubbing: tergeo s. tergo, tersi, 2 and 3: let one wash the silver, the other s. the embossed vessels, hic lavet argentum, vasa aspera tergeat alter, Juv. 14, 62: some s. their smooth shields, pars clipeos leves tergent, Virg. Aen. 7, 626. II. To pass swiftly over: 1. percurro, cŭcurri, or curri, 3: to s. the Picenian territory, agrum Picenum p., Caes. B. C. 1, 15. 2. corrĭpio, rĭpui, reptum, 3 (poet.): the chariots s.'d the plain, campum currus corripuere, Virg. G. 3, 104. 3. verro, 3: v. to sweep. 4. văgor, pervăgor, 1 (to roam over): cf. Cic. Verr. 5, 37, fin., hic praedonum naviculae pervagatae sunt (piratical cruisers s.'d the seas).
SCOUR Copy link • SCOURTo cleanse by rubbing, defricare et diligenter levare; diligenter mundare levareque (Col.). To scour a ditch, fossam detergere or purgare. To range about, percurrere, pererrare, pervagari regionem