Definition of Scout

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Definition of Scout

Scout

A boy scout (which see, above).

A swift sailing boat.

A projecting rock.

To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.

A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.

A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.

A fielder in a game for practice.

The act of scouting or reconnoitering.

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

To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.

To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.

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Scout Quotations

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.
Henny Youngman

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
Robert Baden-Powell

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Juliette G. Low

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
Juliette G. Low

I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest.
Laura Hillenbrand

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.
Daniel J. Evans

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.
Stanley Crouch

Scout Translations

scout in Dutch is verkenner, padvinder
scout in Finnish is partiolainen
scout in Italian is ricognitore
scout in Spanish is explorador, batidor
scout in Swedish is scout, spana, speja

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