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Definition of Scurry

1. Noun. Rushing about hastily in an undignified way.

2. Verb. To move about or proceed hurriedly. "So terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"

Definition of Scurry

1. v. i. To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.

2. n. Act of scurrying; hurried movement.

Definition of Scurry

1. Verb. To run away with quick light steps, to scamper. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scurry

1. to move hurriedly [v -RIED, -RYING, -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scurry

scurfy scurred scurried scurrier scurriers scurries scurril scurrile scurrilities scurrility

scurrilous scurrilously scurrilousness scurring scurrit scurry (current term) scurrying scurs scurvier scurvies

scurviest scurvily scurviness scurvinesses scurvy scurvy rickets scuse scused

Literary usage of Scurry

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"(114 S. С. 296) Ex parte scurry. (No. 10453.) (Supreme Court of South Carolina. June 28, 1920.) Habeas corpus <e=»99(4)—Judgment awarding custody of infant ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1824)
"The Captivity, Sufferings, and Escape, of James scurry, . who was .detained a Prisoner during Ten Years in the Dominions 4*. Boards. Fisher. ..."

3. Southern History of the War: Official Reports of Battles by Confederate States of America War Dept (1864)
"scurry to take four companies of the 4th Texas mounted volunteers, ... scurry, who was approaching with other companies of the regiment and Lieut. ..."

4. Southern History of the War by Confederate States of America War Dept (1864)
"scurry to take four companies of the 4th Texas mounted volunteers, ... scurry, who was approaching with other companies of the regiment and Lieut. ..."

5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"(2) Indecent talk. North. Ill и u ix-ROW, ». An inventory; a list. This witch а ribble rote rehearses, Of scurvy names in scurry verses Colton'i ..."

6. The London Medical Gazette (1831)
"... me that he was the ni.m with ihe scurry, and had no idea of the sailor 's disease being called scurry. Enlargements of' the Abdomen. ..."

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