scours

• “It’s called scours or shipping fever and it comes from stress, like your hamster.”

  Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.

• “Dogs, when constipated, will search for and devour the long, lanceolate blades of couch-grass (_Triticum repens_); horses and mules, when they have "scours," eat clay; cattle with the "scratches" have been seen to plaster hoof and joint with mud, and then stand still until the healing coating dried out and became firm; and elephants have been known, time and again, to plug up shot holes in their bodies with moistened earth. [”

  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

• “The artist Miguel Calderón, whom I befriended a year earlier, keeps a stash of canned beer near a speaker and scours the room to find me a date.”

  Simon & Schuster: Down and Delirious in Mexico City

• “As a result, dedicated staff members monitor the restaurant's cleanliness daily; chefs are not allowed to leave until a manager signs off on their stations; and every Sunday, the staff scours the entire restaurant, breaking down the shelving and refrigerators as part of a "deep clean.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Few Restaurants Achieve Perfection

• “It's not about the cost of materials: he scrounges and scours flea markets and online auctions for things that can apply to the tables.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Roasting Rich and Famous

• “Proposals are being mooted on two fronts: one could establish a new version of the Internet Watch Foundation IWF – the organisation which presently scours the net for illegal images of children, obscene adult content and "non-photographic child sexual abuse hosted in the UK" – to deal with illicit filesharing; the other would put Google and the government on a collision course.”

  The Guardian: Illegal filesharing: web blocking measures in the dock

• “Since last October, France has set up an Internet piracy police service that scours the Web for people downloading films and music illegally.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fortify Copyrights, Europe Artists Say

• “Every day, the online team scours pricing of online electronics rivals and adjusts the prices of thousands of its online-only items.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Retailers Try to Thwart Price Apps

• “Peter Liversidge scours the streets for any old junk as long as it is yellow for his shelf exhibit.”

  The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

• “When it comes time for Westminster, he simply holes up for a couple of days and scours the corners of the Internet occupied by canine enthusiasts and dog show publications.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Care to Wager on the Dogs? Vegas Sets the Odds

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