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noun

Scud n.

The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind. "Borne on the scud of the sea." "The scud was flying fast above us, throwing a veil over the moon."

A slight, sudden shower. (Prov. Eng.)

(Zool.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock. (Prov. Eng.)

(Zool.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.

Storm scud. See the Note under Cloud.

verb

Scud v. t. To pass over quickly. (R.)

Scud v. i. (past & past part. scudded; pres. part. scudding)

To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something. "The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans." "The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven."

(Naut.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.

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"Scud" Quotes from Famous Books

... narrowly for the hot mush; and after breakfast she caught a minute, when Phineas had gone to work, and Mrs. Polly was in the pantry, and Nabby down cellar. She had barely time to fill a bowl with mush, and scud. ...

— The Adventures of Ann - Stories of Colonial Times • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... rate, I shall tell the abbot that, if he will consent quietly to the monk's unfrocking himself, until he can obtain for him release from his vows; I will scud him away to one of the other castles, whence I can fetch him, if you need him to accompany you on any errand, and where he can form part of the regular garrison. But the knave must be informed that it were best that he say nought about his former profession, and ...

— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty

... Where my obscure condition hides. Waves scud to shore against the wind That flings the sprinkling surf behind; In port the bickering pennons show Which way the ships would gladly go; Through Edgecumb Park the rooted trees Are tossing, reckless, in the breeze; On top of Edgecumb's firm-set tower, As foils, not foibles, of its power, ...

— The Victories of Love - and Other Poems • Coventry Patmore

... tarry, children, but scud for home. There's a terrible storm coming." But he did not stop to see that they followed his advice nor inquire if any home ...

— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond

... we are lying under a long hill, and the narrow bay is scarcely rippled by the blast that rushes over us, thick with flying-scud. Captain resolves to await better weather; some of the boys go on shore, and wander out to a kind of reef at the mouth of the bay, where in a short time they succeed in gathering a fine mess of mussels; the rest of us, the stay-on-boards, rig up ...

— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

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