n. Lack of courage; cowardliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discouraged p. pr. & vb. n. Discouraging ] [ Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. décourager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See Courage. ] 1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.

Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. descouragement, F. découragement. ] 1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. “Discouragements from vice.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discourages. [ 1913 Webster ]

The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To discover. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That none might her discoure. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. discursus a running to and fro, discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See Course. ] 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conversation; talk. [ 1913 Webster ]

In their discourses after supper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dealing; transaction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse
Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how
We got the victory. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Discoursed p. pr. & vb. n. Discoursing. ] 1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [ Obs. ] “Have sense or can discourse.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To relate something; to tell. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To treat of something in writing and formally. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter or give forth; to speak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It will discourse most eloquent music. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To talk to; to confer with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Discursive. ] 1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. [ 1913 Webster ]

The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. [ R. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. dis- + courteous: cf. OF. discortois. ] Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + courtesy: cf. OF. descourtoisie. ] Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of courtesy. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Off + scour. ] That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is scoured out or washed out. Buckland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scoured p. pr. & vb. n. Scouring. ] [ Akin to LG. schüren, D. schuren, schueren, G. scheuern, Dan. skure; Sw. skura; all possibly fr. LL. escurare, fr. L. ex + curare to take care. Cf. Cure. ] 1. To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To purge; as, to scour a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ I will ] stain my favors in a bloody mask,
Which, washed away, shall scour my shame with it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Perhaps a different word; cf. OF. escorre, escourre, It. scorrere, both fr. L. excurrere to run forth. Cf. Excursion. ] To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To cleanse or clear, as by a current of water; to flush.

If my neighbor ought to scour a ditch. Blackstone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling. --
Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. Raymond. --
Scouring rush. (Bot.) See Dutch rush, under Dutch. --
Scouring stock (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To clean anything by rubbing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cleanse anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To run swiftly; to rove or range in pursuit or search of something; to scamper. [ 1913 Webster ]

So four fierce coursers, starting to the race,
Scour through the plain, and lengthen every pace. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of scouring. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall.

If you catch the two sole denizens [ trout ] of a particular scour, you will find another pair installed in their place to-morrow. Grant Allen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Refuse water after scouring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, scours. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those days of highwaymen and scourers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. escourgée, fr. L. excoriata (sc. scutica) a stripped off (lash or whip), fr. excoriare to strip, to skin. See Excoriate. ] 1. A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip. [ 1913 Webster ]

Up to coach then goes
The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sharp scourges of adversity. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

What scourge for perjury
Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scourged p. pr. & vb. n. Scourging ] [ From Scourge, n.: cf. OF. escorgier. ] 1. To whip severely; to lash. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman? Acts xxii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb. xii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To harass or afflict severely. [ 1913 Webster ]

To scourge and impoverish the people. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. [ 1913 Webster ]

The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Scorse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. everything which may be considered, explicitly or implicitly, in a particular theory or discussion. [ PJC ]