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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.

ure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.

and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

To whip; to scourge; to flog.

One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.

To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one. We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. Dryden.

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

lfrey. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

Revenge. [Obs.] He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.

A painful scourge. My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 1 Kings xii. 11.

A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed. Deut. xxv. 3.

To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.

To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy. Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school. Dryden.