scouted

Verb (1)

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
   • An hundred horeſmen of my companie
     Scowting abroad vpon theſe champion plaines,
     Haue view’d the army of the Scythians,
     Which make report it far exceeds the Kings.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   survey, reconnoiter

2. (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
   • Take more men, and scout him round.c. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V...

Verb (2)

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (transitive) To reject with contempt.
   • to scout an idea or an apology
2. (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
   • Two months ago I should have scouted as mad or drunk the man who had dared tell me the like.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9
3. (intransitive) To scoff.
   • So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 45, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Verb (3)

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.

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