scouts

/skaʊts/ · noun

Meaning

A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or Harvard), originally implying a male servant, attending to (usually several) students or undergraduates in a variety of ways that includes cleaning; corresponding to the duties of a gyp or possibly bedder at Cambridge University; and at Dublin, a skip.
A fielder in a game for practice.
To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.
To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
To reject with contempt.
To scoff.
A swift sailing boat.
A projecting rock.
The guillemot.
To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.

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