Definition of Scorse

1. n. Barter; exchange; trade.

2. v. t. To barter or exchange.

3. v. i. To deal for the purchase of anything; to practice barter.

Definition of Scorse

1. Verb. (obsolete) To barter or exchange. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scorse

1. to chase [v SCORSED, SCORSING, SCORSES] - See also: chase

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorse

scorpion venoms
scorpion weed
scorpionate
scorpionates
scorpiones
scorpionfish
scorpionfishes
scorpionflies
scorpionfly
scorpionidea
scorpionlike
scorpions
scorpionweed
scorpionwort
scorpling
scorse (current term)
scorsed
scorser
scorsers
scorses
scorsing
scortations
scorzalite
scorzonera
scorzoneras
scot-free
scot and lot
scot free

Literary usage of Scorse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"See Jamieson. Johnson is evidently wron«» in considering it as a contraction of discourse, in the manner of the Italian scors, &c. scorse ..."

2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"scorse' is in prov. use along the south coast (EDD.). ... 'scourse, for discourse; with a quibbling reference to scourse or scorse, to barter. ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"To barter; to exchange. Spenser, [scorso, Hal.] To chase. Y/W. To scorse. rw To deal for the purchase of a horse. ..."

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