scouring

Definition

The act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush, soap and water.

Example Sentences

• "Another for a violent scouring. Take the Entrails of a Pullet, or great Chicken, all but the Gizzard, and mix with tbem of Spikenard one Ounce, ' and make him swallow it, and this will infallibly stay his Scouring, yea, though it be a Bloody-Flux."
• "For that kind of lax and scouring called bloody flux, see the article BLOODY FLUX."
• "Thus in 1670 the London bills ascribe 142 deaths to “bloody flux, scouring, and flux,” and 3,690 to “griping in the guts.”"