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Scout

noun
1.
A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.  Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch.
2.
A Boy Scout or Girl Scout.
3.
Someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports).  Synonym: talent scout.
4.
Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.  Synonyms: guide, pathfinder.
verb
(past & past part. scouted; pres. part. scouting)
1.
Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody.  Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre.



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"Scout" Quotes from Famous Books



... the crest of the ridge. The main command is moving slowly, a few hundred yards below. With the skill of the old scout of the plains, he brings his little squad up to the shoulder of the ridge to the south of the rancho. Dismounting, Indian-like, he crawls up to the summit, from which the beautiful panorama of glittering Lagunitas ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... lighter now. We will pick our way better. But where is the cutting? Chantrill and the Captain despair. Have we missed it in, the dark? Then we are done for. Where is the "I" Co. detachment again? Lost? Here Corporal Grahek, and you, Sgt. Getzloff, you old woodsmen from north Michigan pines, scout around here and find the cutting and that rear party. Who is it that you ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore
... Commonly Call^d Sand flies, the Lowness of the Land and the Dead water in Different Places in the Town & out of it Occasions another Breed of Insects well Known by the Name of Musketoes. These Creatures are well disciplined for they do Not Scout in private Places nor in Small Companies as tho Affraid to attack but Joining in as many Different Colloums as there are Openings to Your Dwellings they make a Desperate push and Seldom fail to Annoy their Enemy in Such a Manner that they leave their ...
— Log-book of Timothy Boardman • Samuel W Boardman
... night at some such development as that which your present statement conveys, and his colleague, Mr. Winter, pretended to scout ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy
... of freedom, and this day Still live in hearts of nations! O, thou Land, Where Man was first the monarch, where the sway Of birth exalted first was broken, stand To guard the helpless with a mighty hand, And give the weak protection; scout the ban Which tyrants utter, and with growing band Of noble freemen serve thy primal plan, And bind all nations ...
— Oklahoma and Other Poems • Freeman E. Miller


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