scorse

scorse

English

Etymology

Compare Italian scorsa (“a course”), and English discourse.

Noun

scorse

1. (obsolete) barter; exchange; trade
   • Edmund Spenser

     And recompensed them with a better scorse.

Verb

scorse (third-person singular simple present scorses, present participle scorsing, simple past and past participle scorsed)

1. (obsolete) To barter or exchange.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse […]

2. (obsolete) To chase.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Croses, Secors, Sorces, cessor, corses, crosse, orcess, scores

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Italian

Verb

scorse

1. third-person singular past historic of scorgere

Adjective

scorse

1. feminine plural of scorso

Noun

scorse f

1. plural of scorsa