Verb (used with object) : They scoured the countryside for the lost child.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : Sand is a good scour.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The roasting pan scours easily.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to scour pots and pans. ,to scour grease from pots and pans. ,to scour the nation of spies.    From Dictionary.com. 

It’s called scours or shipping fever and it comes from stress, like your hamster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.] Reference

And teeth a native lotion hardly scours quite pure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

It does not cause scours and other digestive troubles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference

He scours the industry for the latest sales intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pc Boom--And Now Bust?] Reference

Hundreds of soldiers scours the 15,000 acre training range.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2007] Reference

SNOW: Michael scours job postings, hoping to find work soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2009] Reference

And as a huntsman scours the brakes with sixteen brace of dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ionica] Reference

The Fall's intelligence addresses, scours and liberates us all.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews - all mud and witches] Reference

White scours caused by irritating germs is a highly infectious disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

This throng scours the edges of the aisle clear of any innocent bystanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Detroit Auto Show: Politicians see "progress" in Motor City] Reference

On that horse you can keep out of the way of any red who scours the plains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Bill's Last Trail] Reference

In his book "Collapse," Jared Diamond scours history to ask why civilizations fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unfreezing Arctic Assets] Reference

This is something that is a long-awaited report that everyone scours very carefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 25, 2007] Reference

One nice feature: As you type a number, the phone scours your contacts to make a match.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Look: Samsung's Fascinate smart phone is fine, though flawed] Reference

And two, you're the one who scours through, what, CNN. com, to find a lot of these stories?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2007] Reference

"We're very sensitive," says David Sherman, of the University of Michigan, who scours the oceans.    From Wordnik.com.  [PHARMACY ISLAND] Reference

Zoominfo. com scours the web, press releases, business Web sites for your professional information.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2007] Reference

Dahlsen scours Australian beaches for found materials to recycle and transform into environmental art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kimberly Brooks: Artist John Dahlsen: Making Lemonade Out Of Trash] Reference

“If I'd known I'd have the scours this bad I'd not have eat one mouthful of that venison,” he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

She is an excellent cook, washes and scours, and is in every respect, an active and intelligent servant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

Also tonight, an independent search team scours a heavily wooded area, finding clothing and other items.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2008] Reference

Your winds are actually from the land and the land scours out some of the speed because of the friction.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005] Reference

So warden scours the owner's manual to identify all the fuses, while I search for a loose or grounded wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

If he talks, it could be a windfall for the United States as it scours Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2003] Reference

Much of today's most dramatic erosion is caused when runoff concentrates and scours out the land in "gully washers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Questions and Answers] Reference

Linda Wood, a 57-year-old Pittsburgh accountant, scours eBay, coin shops and flea markets in search of silver eagles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing a Mint:] Reference

Music player updates include Genius Mixes, which scours your collection according to genre and makes up play lists that.    From Wordnik.com.  [New iPod Nano: Video, radio, and features galore] Reference

He scours foreign cities for the latest design ideas, then writes up everything he sees in his trendsetting online newsletter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet The Titans Of Taste] Reference

Sherry Mullins Scurlock says she's skeptical of what Massey says, but scours the news and the Internet and the meetings for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mine Disaster Answers Still Months Away] Reference

Feeding calves from filthy pails, allowing them to drink too rapidly and giving them fermented milk are common causes of scours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

VocabSushi's system scours news articles from about 600 news sources, Mr. Novich said, and indexes about 15,000 sentences every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [VocabSushi: Read the Times Without a Dictionary!] Reference

NEWTON (voice-over): The spam launches a spy program that scours any files and e-mails, and it can use a server anywhere in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009] Reference

A woman who blogs, posts her geolocation and scours the Web for interesting articles to post on FB is just being smart about her data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You Revealing Too Much On Facebook?] Reference

The large underwater base of an iceberg can cut deep grooves in the sea floor, called ice scours, similar to a plow moving through a field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Ocean] Reference