Megrim

MEGRIM

-noun
1. A migraine.
2. A fancy; a whim.
3. In the plural: lowness of spirits -- often with 'the'.



Lying in the dark,
Megrim painting painful tendrils in his brain
Ache lacerations tingling
Agonizing chimes.

Planh

PLANH

–noun
a Provençal elegiac poem, often sung at funeral (also: plaing)



Under his distracted fingers,
The guitar produced a soft lament,
A medieval planh singing the grace of love departed.

Aposematic

APOSEMATIC

–adj.
(zoology)
Coloured or constructed in a way that indicates special capabilities for defence.



The aposematic allure of my dress
Was just a red flag to him.
Grey phantom.

Picture of grey phantom by C. Tirabassi

Verify

VERIFY

–verb (used with object)
1. to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate.
2. to ascertain the truth or correctness of, as by examination, research, or comparison.
3. to act as ultimate proof or evidence of; serve to confirm.
4. Law.
a. to prove or confirm (an allegation).
b. to state to be true, esp. in legal use, formally or upon oath.



I check and check and check
Verifying any suspicious spelling
Pesky typos still getting through

No need for despair, this isn’t yet a wreck
But for my red pen’s furious yelling
It’s just a phrase I’m going through.

Tact

TACT

-noun
1 : sensitive mental or aesthetic perception
2 : a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offence






















It isn’t true that cats aren’t capable of tact.
They can and do have the ability to feel the various sensitive aspects of a situation.
Most of the time, they just choose to ignore this as mere nonsense.
Life is short, after all.
And cuddles or food or play or snooze are far more important than what we consider crucial.

Widgeon

WIDGEON

-noun
1. any of several common freshwater ducks related to the mallards and teals in the genus Anas, having metallic green flight feathers, a white wing patch, and a buff or white forehead, including A. penelope of Eurasia and North Africa, A. sibilatrix of South America, and the baldpate, A. americana, of North America.
2. Obsolete. a fool.




She fluttered about,
A widgeon lost without poles
Or a weather cock.

Cinder

CINDER

–noun
1. a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
2. cinders,
a. any residue of combustion; ashes.
b. Geology. coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes.
3. a live, flameless coal; ember.
4. Metallurgy.
a. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore. (also: slag)
b. a mixture of ashes and slag.
–verb (used with object)
5. to spread cinders on.
6. Archaic. to reduce to cinders.
–verb (used without object)
7. to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk



I shall burn your shadow
So you won't haunt my dreams any more
Watching it flare up
And twist,
And hiss,
Cinders and sparkles flying off
Smoke sickly sweet
On my tongue.
Liquorice.
Its ashes I shall rub on my forehead
As a warning to all ghosts:
Here's one that walks alone.
Now
And ever.

Sear

SEAR

-verb
Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect colour.






















You could see anguish
Sear her placid soul just so
In patent symptoms:
By the flaming of her cheeks,
Sudden dryness in her throat.

Plangent

PLANGENT

-adj.
1.Loud and resounding
2.Expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive



Plangent fog crawling
Switching off life as it goes.
Void booming in vain.

Key

KEY

–noun
1. a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
2. any of various devices resembling or functioning as a key.
3. something that affords a means of access: the key to happiness.
4. something that secures or controls entrance to a place.
5. something that affords a means of clarifying a problem.
6. a book, pamphlet, or other text containing the solutions or translations of material given elsewhere, as testing exercises.
7. a systematic explanation of abbreviations, symbols, etc., used in a dictionary, map, etc.
8. the system, method, pattern, etc., used to decode or decipher a cryptogram, as a code book, machine setting, or key word.
9. one of a set of marked parts, designated areas, or levers pressed in operating a typewriter, computer terminal, calculator, etc.
10.a manually operated lever for opening and closing an electric circuit, used to produce signals in telegraphy.
11.Music.
a. (in a keyboard instrument) one of the levers that when depressed by the performer sets in motion the playing mechanism.
b. (on a woodwind instrument) a metal lever that opens and closes a vent.
c. the relationship perceived between all tones in a given unit of music and a single tone or a keynote; tonality.
d. the principal tonality of a composition: a symphony in the key of C minor.
e. the keynote or tonic of a scale.
12.tone or pitch, as of voice.
13.mood or characteristic style, as of expression or thought.
14.degree of intensity, as of feeling or action.
15.a pin, bolt, wedge, or other piece inserted in a hole or space to lock or hold parts of a mechanism or structure together; a cotter.
16.a small piece of steel fitting into matching slots of a hub of a wheel or the like and the shaft on which the wheel is mounted so that torque is transmitted from one to the other.
17.a contrivance for grasping and turning a bolt, nut, etc.
18.Computers. a field or group of characters within a record that identifies the record, establishing its position among sorted records, and/or provides information about its contents.
19.(in a series of advertisements or announcements soliciting replies) a unique code inserted for each medium used, to determine the relative effectiveness of the media.
20.Electricity.
a. a device for opening and closing electrical contacts.
b.a hand-operated switching device ordinarily formed of concealed spring contacts with an exposed handle or push button, capable of switching one or more parts of a circuit.
21.Biology. a systematic tabular classification of the significant characteristics of the members of a group of organisms to facilitate identification and comparison.
22.Masonry. a keystone.
23.Architecture. (in a ribbed vault) a stone, as a boss, at the intersection of two or more ribs.
24.Masonry, Carpentry. a wedge, as for tightening a joint or splitting a stone or timber.
25.Carpentry. a small piece of wood set into a timber across the grain to prevent warping.
26.Building Trades. any grooving or roughness applied to a surface to improve its bond with another surface.
27.Photography. the dominant tonal value of a picture, a high-key picture having light tonal values and minimal contrast and a low-key picture being generally dark with minimal contrast.
28.Painting. the tonal value and intensity of a colour or range of colours.
29.Botany. a Samara.
30.(initial capital letter) a member of the House of Keys.
31.keys, spiritual authority.
–adj.
32.chief; major; important; essential; fundamental; pivotal.
–verb (used with object)
33.to regulate or adjust (actions, thoughts, speech, etc.) to a particular state or activity; bring into conformity.
34.Music. to regulate the key or pitch of.
35.Painting.
a. to paint (a picture) in a given key.
b. to adjust the colours in (a painting) to a particular hue.
36.to fasten, secure, or adjust with a key, wedge, or the like, as parts of a mechanism.
37.to provide with a key.
38.(in the layout of newspapers, magazines, etc.) to identify, through signs or symbols, the positions of illustrations or pieces of copy in a dummy.
39.to lock with or as if with a key.
40.Masonry. to provide (an arch or vault) with a keystone.
–verb (used without object)
41.to use a key.





The thief of Time has many keys

Fortune

FORTUNE

–noun
1. position in life as determined by wealth.
2. wealth or riches.
3. great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like.
4. chance; luck.
5. fortunes. things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life.
6. fate; lot; destiny.
7. (initial capital letter ) chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life.
8. good luck; success; prosperity.
9. Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress.
–verb (used with object)
10.Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.
–verb (used without object)
11. Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance.



Fortune in her hand
Told of the strangest tale yet
A tall dark stranger,
Travels, children, and money…
But why the violin and ducks?

Decussate

DECUSSATE

-verb tr.
To intersect or to cross.




Eaten by time,
Missing intersections
Fail to decussate.

Tattoo

TATTOO

–noun
1. a signal on a drum, bugle, or trumpet at night, for soldiers or sailors to go to their quarters.
2. a knocking or strong pulsation.
3. British. an outdoor military pageant or display.
–noun
1. the act or practice of marking the skin with indelible patterns, pictures, legends, etc., by making punctures in it and inserting pigments.
2. a pattern, picture, legend, etc., so made.
–verb (used with object)
3. to mark (the skin) with tattoos.
4. to put (tattoos) on the skin.



I trace memories on your skin,
Along the path of disappeared tattoos,
Their secret message dormant;
Invisible ink waiting to be revealed:
Milk and honey dragons, playing with pearls.

Vintage beauty courtesy of inspyretash-stock at DeviantArt

Undaunted

UNDAUNTED

-adj.
1.undismayed; not discouraged; not forced to abandon purpose or effort.
2.Undiminished in courage or valour; not giving way to fear; intrepid



Undaunted by the task at hand,
Ants go about their business
With high hopes of transporting
A whole flower into their lair.

Syllable

SYLLABLE

–noun
1. an uninterrupted segment of speech consisting of a centre of relatively great sonority with or without one or more accompanying sounds of relatively less sonority.
2. one or more written letters or characters representing more or less exactly such an element of speech.
3. the slightest portion or amount of speech or writing; the least mention.
–verb (used with object)
4. to utter in syllables; articulate.
5. to represent by syllables.
–verb (used without object)
6. to utter syllables; speak.




Counting on fingers
For syllables that escaped
Wings flapping madly.

Award

AWARD

–verb (used with object)
1. to give as due or merited; assign or bestow: to award prizes.
2. to bestow by judicial decree; assign or appoint by deliberate judgement, as in arbitration.
–noun
3. something awarded, as a payment or medal.
4. Law.
a. a decision after consideration; a judicial sentence.
b. the decision of arbitrators on a matter submitted to them.



Many thanks for the award,
For a task which is a pleasure,
A marvel in each word.

This blog received a Kreativ Blogger Award from Jientje.


The associated rules are to name seven things you like
And to nominate seven other blogs for the award, thus spreading the love.

Now I had problems enough restricting the list of blogs to seven:

• A Longing for the Impossible
• Stacy Hurt
• Feuilleton
• When the Dogs Bite
• Cabinet of Wonders
• (p)(b)
• The Dusty Lens

I can't be that selective for things I love.
If you are desperately curious, a few crushes are listed there.

Accismus

ACCISMUS

-noun
feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it



The diva suffers from acute accismus
She travels incognito
But she calls journalists to let them know.

Guerdon

GUERDON

-noun
a reward, recompense, or requital
-verb (used with object)
to give a guerdon to; reward




Spring
Brings
Its own guerdon
Intemperance smiled over.

Chit

CHIT

-noun
1.A statement of an amount owed for food and drink
2.a child or young person , especially a pert girl



Trapped in a bubble
A mere chit of a creature
Dancing through shadows

Bath beauty appearing courtesy of the LIFE archive.

Dearth

DEARTH

–noun
1. an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack.
2. scarcity and dearness of food; famine.




Dearth of sleep
Colouring reality
With bleeding tints

Incense

INCENSE

–noun
1. An aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odour when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
2. The perfume or smoke arising from such a substance when burned.
3. Any pleasant perfume or fragrance.
4. Homage or adulation.
–verb (used with object)
5. To perfume with incense.
6. To burn incense for.
–verb (used without object)
7. To burn or offer incense.

–verb (used with object)
1. To inflame with wrath; make angry; enrage.




Intense incensed heat:
Roses’ scent crawls on the grass,
Unable to waft.

Despondent

DESPONDENT

–adj.
feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom






















Despondent,
Too many regrets
About unvisited shores
Winds gone stale under wings.

Abiology

ABIOLOGY

-noun
The study of inanimate things.



The robot specialized in abiology
But committed the very basic fault
To fall in love with its patient:
A delicious clock.

Buzz

BUZZ

–noun
1. a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
2. a rumour or report.
3. Informal. a phone call.
4. Slang.
a. a feeling of intense enthusiasm, excitement, or exhilaration.
b. a feeling of slight intoxication.
–verb (used without object)
5. to make a low, vibrating, humming sound.
6. to speak or murmur with such a sound.
7. to be filled with the sound of buzzing or whispering.
8. to whisper; gossip.
9. to move busily from place to place.
10.Slang. to go; leave (usually followed by “off” or “along”).
–verb (used with object)
11.to make a buzzing sound with.
12.to tell or spread (a rumour, gossip, etc.) secretively.
13.to signal or summon with a buzzer.
14.Informal. to make a phone call to.
15.Aeronautics.
a. to fly a plane very low over: to buzz a field.
b. to signal or greet (someone) by flying a plane low and slowing the motor spasmodically.



Grumbling and rumbling
Frantic arms flaying about
You are annoying
Your words a buzz in my ear
Attention demanding fly.

Gainly

GAINLY

-adj.
Graceful; dexterous.






















Death can show a gainly leg in her dance macabre
Always a step ahead of her mortal partners

Furlough

FURLOUGH

–noun
1. Military. a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person.
2. a usually temporary lay-off from work.
3. a temporary leave of absence authorized for a prisoner from a prison.
–verb (used with object)
4. to grant a furlough to.
5. to lay (an employee or worker) off from work, usually temporarily.






















She took a furlough from sanity
Escaping to a world of her own
Where giant butterflies devoured her.

The dreamer appears courtesy of George Eastman House

Systole

SYSTOLE

-noun
The rhythmic contraction of the heart, especially of the ventricles, by which blood is driven through the aorta and pulmonary artery after each dilation or diastole.



A tune of systole
A breath robbing melody
Displaying it charms
In the move of your ankles
And the dance of tiny bells

Just

JUST

–adj.
1. guided by truth, reason, justice, and fairness.
2. done or made according to principle; equitable; proper.
3. based on right; rightful; lawful.
4. in keeping with truth or fact; true; correct.
5. given or awarded rightly; deserved, as a sentence, punishment, or reward.
6. in accordance with standards or requirements; proper or right.
7. (esp. in Biblical use) righteous.
8. actual, real, or genuine.
–adv.
9. within a brief preceding time; but a moment before.
10. exactly or precisely.
11. by a narrow margin; barely.
12. only or merely.
13. actually; really; positively.























Mandate was given to the snails
To decide who were the righteous:
They found them all as perfect - or imperfect - as humans go
Some just more tasty than others.

Wend

WEND

verb tr., intr.
To travel along a route.



His wending along the rooftop proved a little hazardous.
But the owners were glad for his eating of the moss.

Bombinate

BOMBINATE

–verb (used without object)
to make a humming or buzzing noise.






















The garden seemed to be bombinating on account of the bumblebees taking their breakfast there.

Unfurl

UNFURL

–verb (used with object)
1. to spread or shake out from a furled state, as a sail or a flag; unfold.
–verb (used without object)
2. to become unfurled.



Green steam is rising
Tea leaves unfurl in conquest.
A storm sweeps the clouds.

Ghoul

GHOUL

-noun
1. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome.
2. A grave robber.
3. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.



In the dusk of her memory, she finds old skeletons, things she had buried deep and are now surfacing from their liquid grave; ghouls summoned by the last ray of light.

Tolerance

TOLERANCE

​-noun
1. The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.
a. Leeway for variation from a standard.
b. The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent.
c. Physiological resistance to a toxin.
d. Diminution in the physiological response to a drug that occurs after continued use, necessitating larger doses to produce a given response.
e. Acceptance of a tissue graft or transplant without immunological rejection.
f. Unresponsiveness to an antigen that normally produces an immunological reaction.
2. The capacity to endure hardship or pain.
3. Medicine
a. Physiological resistance to a toxin.
b. Diminution in the physiological response to a drug that occurs after continued use, necessitating larger doses to produce a given response.
c. Acceptance of a tissue graft or transplant without immunological rejection.
d. Unresponsiveness to an antigen that normally produces an immunological reaction.
e. Acceptance of a tissue graft or transplant without immunological rejection.
f. Unresponsiveness to an antigen that normally produces an immunological reaction.
4. The ability of an organism to resist or survive infection by a parasitic or pathogenic organism.




Weather more than time
Had abused the tolerance
For hardship and woes.
The diva mutilated
Into climatic zombie.

Contagious

CONTAGIOUS

–adj.
1. capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object.
2. carrying or spreading a contagious disease.
3. tending to spread from person to person.



We hesitate
To live in harmony
When conflict is so contagious.

Conclave

CONCLAVE

–noun
1. a private or secret meeting.
2. an assembly or gathering, esp. one that has special authority, power, or influence: a conclave of political leaders.
3. the assembly or meeting of the cardinals for the election of a pope.
4. the body of cardinals; the College of Cardinals.
5. the place in which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church meet in private for the election of a pope.






















Nature’s bold conclave
Decided summer moves in.
Eyes smiling with sun.

Contumely

CONTUMELY

-noun
Rudeness whose roots are in arrogance; an arrogant remark or action.






















Here seen in action,
The contumely of times:
Ancient frayed glory.

Tremulous

TREMULOUS

-adj.
1 : marked by trembling or tremors : quivering
2 : timorous, timid



Tremulous bounty
Sowing tomorrow's wild oats.
Freckles on my nose.

Vie

VIE

–verb (used without object)
1. to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority.
–verb (used with object)
2. Archaic. to put forward in competition or rivalry.
3. Obsolete. to stake in card playing



While reason and insanity vied for his mind,
Ghouls came out of the walls to eat his soul.

Beckon

BECKON

–verb
1. to signal, summon, or direct by a gesture of the head or hand.
2. to lure; entice.
–noun
3. a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.



The well beckoned, promising hidden treasures.
At the bottom he found only mud and cold - very cold - water.
And that he had no way back up.

Counsel

COUNSEL

–noun
1. advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
2. interchange of opinions as to future procedure; consultation; deliberation.
3. Law. (used with a singular or plural verb ) the advocate or advocates engaged in the direction of a cause in court; a legal adviser or counsellor
4. deliberate purpose; plan; design.
5. Theology. one of the advisory declarations of Christ, considered by some Christians as not universally binding but as given for aid in attaining moral perfection.
6. Archaic. a private or secret opinion or purpose.
7. Obsolete. wisdom; prudence.
–verb (used with object)
8. to give advice to; advise.
9. to urge the adoption of, as a course of action; recommend (a plan, policy, etc.).
–verb (used without object)
10.to give counsel or advice.
11.to get or take counsel or advice.




It's the stardust in our bones, calling out to the sky: Like children turning to their parents for counsel, we look for signs from the deep.

Westerlund picture taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory is used courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution

Fictile

FICTILE

-adj.
Capable of being moulded.























Fictile truths
Discarded, floating
Autumn love

Doolally

DOOLALLY

-adj.
Irrational, deranged, or insane.






















Doolally doodles
To keep fingers busy
To keep the mind numb.

Dazibao

DAZIBAO

–noun
(in China) a wall poster.



In my dreams
Dazibaos
Speak
Of lost voyage
Forgotten opportunities.

Flair

FLAIR

-noun
1. a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack.
2. smartness of style, manner, etc..
3. keen perception or discernment.
4. Hunting. scent; sense of smell.






















Unusual domestic flair
And a taste for white lace
Creates fringe employment:
Ecclesiastic Cleaner.

Hypnopompic

HYPNOPOMPIC

–adj.
Psychology.
of or pertaining to the semi-conscious state prior to complete wakefulness.



Our post-prandial daze:
Mere hypnopompic effect.
All shadows transformed:
A lock into sharp arrows,
And the old door into sea.

Crown

CROWN

–noun
1. any of various types of headgear worn by a monarch as a symbol of sovereignty, often made of precious metal and ornamented with valuable gems.
2. a similar ornamental headgear worn by a person designated king or queen in a pageant, contest, etc.
3. an ornamental wreath or circlet for the head, conferred by the ancients as a mark of victory, athletic or military distinction, etc.
4. the distinction that comes from a great achievement.
5. the power or dominion of a sovereign.
6. (often initial capital letter) the sovereign as head of the state, or the supreme governing power of a state under a monarchical government.
7. any crown-like emblem or design, as in a heraldic crest.
8. the top or highest part of anything, as of a hat or a mountain.
9. the top of the head.
10.Dentistry.
a. the part of a tooth that is covered by enamel.
b. an artificial substitute, as of gold or porcelain, for the crown of a tooth.
11.the highest point of any construction of convex section or outline, as an arch, vault, deck, or road.
12.the highest or most nearly perfect state of anything.
13.an exalting or chief attribute.
14.the acme or supreme source of honor, excellence, beauty, etc.
15.something having the form of a crown, as the corona of a flower.
16.Botany.
a. the leaves and living branches of a tree.
b. the point at which the root of a seed plant joins the stem.
c. a circle of appendages on the throat of the corolla; corona.
17.the crest, as of a bird.
18.Architecture.
a. a termination of a tower consisting of a lantern like steeple supported entirely by a number of flying buttresses.
b. any ornamental termination of a tower or turret.
19.Also called button. Horology. a knurled knob for winding a watch.
20.any of various coins bearing the figure of a crown or crowned head.
21.a former silver coin of the United Kingdom, equal to five shillings: retained in circulation equal to 25 new pence after decimalization in 1971.
22.the monetary unit of Denmark, Iceland, Norway, or Sweden: a krona or krone.
23.the koruna of Czechoslovakia.
24.a crimped metal bottle cap.
25.crown glass.
26.Cookery. crown roast.
27.Also called bezel, top. Jewelry. the part of a cut gem above the girdle.
28.a drill bit consisting of a metal matrix holding diamond chips.
29.Also called head. Nautical. the part of an anchor at which the arms join the shank.
30.Machinery.
a. a slight convexity given to a pulley supporting a flat belt in order to centre the belt.
b. a slight convexity given to the outer faces of the teeth of two gears so that they mesh toward their centres rather than at the ends.
31.a size of printing paper, 15 × 20 in. (38 × 51 cm).
32.Nautical, Machinery.
33.Knots. a knot made by interweaving the strands at the end of a rope, often made as the beginning of a back splice or as the first stage in tying a more elaborate knot.
34.a crown-piece.
–verb (used with object)
35.to invest with a regal crown, or with regal dignity and power.
36.to place a crown or garland upon the head of.
37.to honour or reward; invest with honour, dignity, etc.
38.to be at the top or highest part of.
39.to complete worthily; bring to a successful or triumphant conclusion.
40.Informal. to hit on the top of the head.
41.to give to (a construction) an upper surface of convex section or outline.
42.to cap (a tooth) with a false crown.
43.Checkers. to change (a checker) into a king after having safely reached the last row.
44.Knots. to form a crown on (the end of a rope).
–verb (used without object)
45.Medicine/Medical. (of a baby in childbirth) to reach a stage in delivery where the largest diameter of the foetal head is emerging from the pelvic outlet.






















With little green crowns on top their ruddy heads,
Strawberries felt fit for a king's or a queen's treat.

Cohere

COHERE

-verb intr.
To be united; to work or hold together.






















His eye held the power to cohere
When rationality fled.

Anabasis

ANABASIS

noun
A movement upward or forward, as a military advance or the advance of disease in the body; the antonym of "retreat."



The demons stroke an anabasis
Over his soul
The possession eventually
Altering his appearance too.

Scour

SCOUR

–verb (used with object)
1. to remove dirt, grease, etc., from or to cleanse or polish by hard rubbing, as with a rough or abrasive material.
2. to remove (dirt, grease, etc.) from something by hard rubbing.
3. to clear or dig out (a channel, drain, etc.) as by the force of water, by removing debris, etc.
4. to purge thoroughly, as an animal.
5. to clear or rid of what is undesirable.
6. to remove by or as if by cleansing; get rid of.
7. to clean or rid of debris, impurities, etc., by or as if by washing, as cotton or wool.
8. Metallurgy. (of the contents of a blast furnace) to rub against and corrode (the refractory lining).
–verb (used without object)
9. to rub a surface in order to cleanse or polish it.
10.to remove dirt, grease, etc.
11.to become clean and shiny.
12.to be capable of being cleaned by rubbing.
13.(of a plough, cultivator, etc.) to pass through the ground without soil clinging to the blade.
14.(of a plough, shovel, etc.) to become polished from use.
–noun
15.the act of scouring.
16.the place scoured.
17.an apparatus or material used in scouring.
18.the erosive force of moving water, as in a river or sea.
19.Usually “scours” (used with a singular or plural verb ) - Veterinary Pathology: Diarrhoea in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection.























Rain laced with sand
Scours the world of its life.
Deep spring cleaning.