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To purge; as, to scour a horse.

Refuse water after scouring.

One who, or that which, scours.

punishment or discipline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman.

One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.

See Scorse. [Obs.]

irits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21.

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall.

The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.

One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.

To discover. [Obs.] That none might her discoure. Spenser.

wer; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward.

ogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden.

Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.

srespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.

Want of courtesy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.

That which is scoured out o Buckland.