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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scum \Scum\, v. i.
     To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used
     figuratively.
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           Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and


           scummed over.                            --A. K. H.
                                                    Boyd.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scum \Scum\ (sk[u^]m), n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw.
     skum, Icel. sk[=u]m, LG. schum, D. schuim, OHG. sc[=u]m, G.
     schaum; probably from a root meaning, to cover. [root]158.
     Cf. {Hide} skin, {Meerschaum}, {Skim}, v., {Sky}.]
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     1. The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the
        surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which
        form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of
        metals in a molten state; dross.
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              Some to remove the scum as it did rise. --Spenser.
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     2. refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
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              The great and innocent are insulted by the scum and
              refuse of the people.                 --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scum \Scum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scummed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Scumming}.]
     1. To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from
        the surface of; to skim.
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              You that scum the molten lead.        --Dryden &
                                                    Lee.
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     2. To sweep or range over the surface of. [Obs.]
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              Wandering up and down without certain seat, they
              lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.
                                                    --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scum
       n 1: worthless people [syn: {trash}]
       2: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the
          surface of a liquid
       [also: {scumming}, {scummed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  239 Moby Thesaurus words for "scum":
     aerate, alluvion, alluvium, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid,
     apply to, ash, beat, bilge, bilgewater, blanket, block, bones,
     breakers, canaille, canopy, carrion, cattle, chaff, cinder,
     clinker, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coating, collar, collop, cope,
     cover, cover up, covering, cowl, cream, culm, cur, curtain, cut,
     deadwood, deal, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, disk,
     ditchwater, draff, dregs, dregs of society, dross, dust, eclipse,
     ember, enamel, facing, feces, feuille, filings, film, flap, foam,
     foil, fold, froth, fur, garbage, gash, glop, grounds, gunk, head,
     hogwash, hood, husks, lacquer, lamella, lamina, laminated glass,
     laminated wood, lap, lather, lay on, lay over, leaf, leavings,
     lees, loess, male gamete, mantle, mask, masses, membrane, meringue,
     milt, mire, mob, moraine, mousse, muck, muffle, obduce, obscure,
     occult, offal, offscourings, offscum, ooze, orts, overlay,
     overspread, paint, pane, panel, parings, patina, peel, pellicle,
     plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, pollen, potsherds,
     precipitate, precipitation, prick, proletariat, protein, puff,
     put on, raff, rags, ragtag and bobtail, rasher, raspings, refuse,
     revetment, riffraff, rubbish, safety glass, scale, scoria,
     scourings, scrap iron, scraps, screen, scud, scurf, sea foam,
     sediment, seed, semen, seminal fluid, settlings, sewage, sewerage,
     shards, shavings, sheet, shield, shit, shithead, silt, sinter,
     skin, skunk, slab, slack, slag, slat, slice, slime, slob, slop,
     slops, slosh, slough, sludge, slush, smut, snake, soapsuds, soot,
     sordes, souffle, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid,
     spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte,
     spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid,
     spermatozoon, spindrift, splosh, spoondrift, spray, spread over,
     spume, stinging, stinker, stubble, sublimate, sud, suds,
     superimpose, superpose, surf, sweepings, swill, swinish multitude,
     table, tablet, tares, toad, trash, turd, unwashed, varnish, veil,
     veneer, vermin, wafer, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper,
     weeds, whip, whisk, white water
  
  

















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