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scourse

scourse is the obsolete form of scorse.

Meaning of scorse

Verb

scorse (third-person singular simple present scorses, present participle scorsing, simple past and past participle scorsed)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To barter or exchange.
    • But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) To chase.
    • Him first from court he to the citties coursed,
      And from the citties to the townes him prest,
      And from the townes into the countrie forsed
      , And from the country back to private farmes he scorsed1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

See all 3 meanings of scorse

Forms of scourse

third-person singular presentscourses
present participlescoursing
past participlescoursed
pastscoursed

Questions about scourse

What is scourse the obsolete form of?
Scourse is the obsolete form of scorse.

Words near scourse in the dictionary

  1. scouringly
  2. scourings
  3. scours
  4. scours down
  5. scours up
  6. scourse
  7. scoursed
  8. scourses
  9. scoursing
  10. scoury
  11. scouse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scourse (page history and authors); scorse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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