offscouring

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OFF'SCOURING, noun [off and scour.] That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lamentations 3:45. 1 Corinthians 4:13.
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