scavenger

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A "scavenger"--this was the disrespectful way in which those quotations were described which had often roused the Tory Benches to ecstasies of delight.

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  1. noun One that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for food.
  2. noun An animal, such as a bird or insect, that feeds on dead or decaying matter.
  3. noun Chemistry A substance added to a mixture to remove or inactivate impurities.

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  • Santino's a scavenger, and a plague, one of the Lower Flight of Hell. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • He says Santino's a scavenger, and they aren't allowed out of Hell. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • Even going slowly, with his neck stretched out and his teeth shining, a Tyrannosaurus would have frightened off other scavengers from a carcass -unless a scavenger was another T. rex. Amateur paleontologist Steven Sacrison found that according to the evidence of their bones, T. rex often battled to the death with those of his own kind. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • The size of the burrow made me think the scavenger was a fairly small creature. —  forestmage
  • Also, this year Sun has really made lot of efforts to connect with students at JavaOne and CommunityOne, starting with the OSUM lounge, which was THE place to hangout for students and all the fun activities like the scavenger hunt, the duke photo opportunity, a hang space with play stations, a lot of places where you can just sit down and relax on bean bags or watch a movie or play games! —  Sun Bloggers
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  1. Alteration of Middle English scauager, schavager, official charged with street maintenance, from Anglo-Norman scawager, toll collector, from scawage, a tax on the goods of foreign merchants, from Flemish scauwen, to look at, show.

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  1. Early modern English also skavenger; with intrusive n as in messenger, passenger, porringer; from Middle English scavager, from Old French scawageour, literally one who had to do with scavage, from *scavage, escavage, scavage: see scavage. The word has come to be regarded as a noun of agent in -er, whence the verb scavenge.
 

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