the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Scout
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.
(2):
(n.) A fielder in a game for practice.
(3):
(n.) The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
(4):
(v. t.) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
(5):
(v. t.) To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.
(6):
(n.) A boy scout (which see, above).
(7):
(n.) A swift sailing boat.
(8):
(n.) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; - so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
(9):
(v. t.) To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
(10):
(n.) A projecting rock.
(11):
(n.) A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Scout'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/scout.html. 1828.
