Word Finder - scouts

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A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.

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An act of scouting or reconnoitering.

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A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.

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A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.

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A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or Harvard), originally implying a male servant, attending to (usually several) students or undergraduates in a variety of ways that includes cleaning; corresponding to the duties of a gyp or possibly bedder at Cambridge University; and at Dublin, a skip.

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A fielder in a game for practice.

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(up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.

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Term of address for a man or boy.

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To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.

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To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.

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To reject with contempt.

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to scout an idea or an apology

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To scoff.

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A swift sailing boat.

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A projecting rock.

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The guillemot.

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To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.

I want to look at the logs for the past few days to see if any of the scouts have reported any other fed buildings going up in flames.

Our scouts have not found more than what was on the map.

According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the night.

A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot.

The cavalry of the Saxons had established the fact that the French had not retreated northward, but though scouts from the Guard had already seen the enemy on the heights of St Privat, this information had not yet reached headquarters, nor had it been transmitted to the IX.

Brady's scouts reported nothing, and they emerged from the cover of nearby buildings.

She kept her head low as she walked her horse past scouts perched on boulders and hidden within trees.

The writer of the Kitab-al-Fihrist says he had been assured that Jaber only wrote one book and even that he never existed at all, but these statements he scouts as ridiculous, and expressing the conviction that Jaber really did exist, and that his works were numerous and important, goes on to quote the titles of some 500 treatises attributed to him.

At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our Cossack scouts were moving.

Prisoners, Cossacks, and the scouts all say the same thing.

There, amid a cluster of floats, Boy Scouts and ballerinas, four of Fred's lady friends were in the final stages of hanging bunting about a beautiful old touring car whose vintage or name Dean couldn't identify.

Rhyn crept carefully through the demon scouts positioned throughout the forest surrounding the castle.  The demons wore the Dark One's uniform of all black with waterproof cloaks and hoods.  The demon side of him rendered his presence similar enough to a full-demon's that the others wouldn't be alarmed.  He sized up each demon he passed, until he found one who appeared to be his size.  The creature didn't hear his soft step, and the snapping of the demon's neck was the only other sound in the falling rain.

In 1892 he was elected to the Dominion Parliament, but in 1899 he interrupted his political career to serve in the South African War, where he commanded a mixed force of English and colonial scouts in western Cape Colony.

The land was full of " sons of Anak," giants who had terrified the scouts sent from Kadesh.

A " Scouts " Church was formed at the end of the war of1899-1902by burghers who had previously acted as " National Scouts " and were ostracized by the synods of their former Churches.

After some years of friction " National Scouts " were however readmitted, on terms, to their former membership.

The corps of National Scouts (formed of burghers who had taken the oath of allegiance) was inaugurated and the Johannesburg stock exchange reopened.

Treaties and military operations were at first of no avail, but in 1876 the United States government took steps to reduce them to submission, and Generals George Crook (1828-1890), Alfred Howe Terry (1827-1890) and John Gibbon (1827-1896), with 2700 troops (besides the Crow scouts) were sent against the Sioux under Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others.

In addition, a force of native scouts, which ultimately reached a total of 860 men, was organized in eighteen companies, and partly armed with Snider rifles, to cover the advance of the main column, which started on the 27th of December, and to improve the road.

During the Civil War he rendered invaluable services to the Federal cause in the south-west as chief scout in charge of the various bodies of irregular scouts and rangers participating in the constant border warfare that characterized the conflict in that part of the Union.

James declined to commit this chivalrous folly; but, for lack of scouts, permitted Surrey to out-manoeuvre him and pass, concealed by a range of hills, across his front, to a position north of Flodden, on his lines of communication.

Miles, and in 1890, during an uprising of the Sioux, he was sent to Dakota, in charge of the Indian scouts.

Sensing demons in the upcoming halls, he replaced his hood and stepped from the stairwell leading to the basement into the hall on the main floor.  Half a dozen demons paced the corridor, three dressed as scouts like he was.  Rhyn made his way through his half-brethren, once again getting an idea of how many were there.

Stationary scouts shifted only when necessary.

Arrange for me to accompany the scouts on the morn.

We had Rwandan Boy Scouts, teenagers, working for us in food distribution.

For more information on scouting for girls, visit the website at Girl Scouts or contact your local Girl Scout council to find the troop nearest you at 1-800-478-7248.

My new allies are expert scouts and spies, and may have already infiltrated your army.

In 1929 some of our scouts attended the jamboree held at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead.

During the last several jamborees that I was on staff we had some English Scouts also attended the Jamboree.

The Boy Scouts were comparative latecomers to the field of youth movements - the first groups forming in 1908.

Scouts quickly agreed to fill roles as diverse as stretcher-bearers, convoy signallers, firewatchers and bicycle messengers.

After Major John Bullis sacked him as chief of scouts at San Carlos in December, 1890, Sieber became a prospector.

His scouts had chosen the route through the town center carefully.

Travel without moving and make your home a happy haven for your fellow scouts in the process And don't forget.

They are being given a send-off by the Boy Scouts and a group of subdued locals.

For Scouts in camo, we used the same greenish Khaki but with dark green splotches on top.

It was 1966, and record company talent scouts were still touring the Village looking for " the new Dylan " .

The scouts had also been sent worksheets on how to build tepees to shelter under while they waited for their turns.

The theological trailblazers and scouts do not always make such enjoyable company.

The 1st division, warned by their own scouts that French troops were in Ste Marie, deployed to attack this village, and were assisted in their endeavour by a brigade of Saxons detached by the crown prince of Saxony, who from his position could see behind the poplar screen that limited the view of the commander-in-chief.

Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlovski all the reports from our scouts.

Scouts may also be required to maintain flank contact or to reconnoiter subsequent battle positions during a hasty defense.

Travel without moving and make your home a happy haven for your fellow Scouts in the process And do n't forget.

Explorer Scouts aged between 14 to 18 years can become Young Leaders.

It later plays an important role by bringing many names to light through its talent scouts.

It was 1966, and record company talent scouts were still touring the Village looking for " the new Dylan ".

Top scorer Dean Windass proved instrumental in the Tigers successes and brought a steady stream of visiting scouts to Boothferry Park.

Judges are typically comprised of entertainment industry professionals, as well as top talent scouts and casting agents.

His son, William MacKay Low, married Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon.