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scorse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /skɔː(ɹ)s/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Compare Italian scorsa (“a course”), and English discourse.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) barter; exchange; trade
   • And recompenst him with a better scorse. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 55:

scorse en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /skɔː(ɹ)s/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Compare Italian scorsa (“a course”), and English discourse.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To barter or exchange.
   • But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2. (obsolete) To chase.
   • Him first from court he to the citties coursed, And from the citties to the townes him prest, And from the townes into the countrie forsed , And from the country back to private farmes he scorsed 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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