Definition of "scours" [scours]

• Diarrhea in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection. (noun)
• A place where wool was washed and cleaned. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scour. (verb)

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